I love my Morrocan family and they love me -- what happened to you :(

Submitted by Alexandra (United States), Aug 22, 2007 at 15:12

He probably just used the You are not Moroccan thing as an excuse. Even if the parents preferred a Moroccan to be the daughter in law they would have accepted you if you were married. If there son was serious. Muslim men are NOT to date. So just by him doing that it shows he wasn't really serious. Even if he had spoken to you previously about marriage he may not have been so serious and then when he spoke to his parents he returned to reality.

I am married to a Moroccan man, I am American and I am Muslim (I was before I had ever met him). His family loves and respects me. In islam we don't date and we rush to get married because any other relationship is haram (illegal) between a man and a woman.

I also know non-Muslim American women married to Moroccans but they rushed into marriage for the reasons I mentioned above and their Moroccan families love them to pieces too.

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