Egyptian Men - Response

Submitted by Louise (Egypt), Dec 14, 2007 at 04:11

Hi Michelle,

I'm English and live in Luxor with my Egyptian Husband, we were enaged for three years before we got married and I used to come over here every few months to see him, we have been married for almost a year, I made sure we were enaged for this period of time as I had heard so many horror stories about Egyptian men that I wanted to be 100% sure of him before I moved over and married him.

I hope it does not offend you but I personally would not trust an Egyptian man here that works in the tourist industry.

most have them have many wives, as obviously their english is very good, and they are meeting different women every day. Alot of these men also go for European wives who are a lot older than themselves.

this is purely business for them, usually the men are in their 20's and the women in their 50's, the sole reason for them marrything these women is to bleed them dry of all of the money they have, once the money has gone, they tell their wives to go too.

What you have to remember is that it easy for a european woman to marry an egyptian man in egypt, all they have to do is pop a long to the lawyers, sign a few papers and get an orfi contract, this contract can be ripped up at any time, the contract is only recognised in Egypt, this is why my husband and I wanted to get married at the British Embassy in Cairo.

I am a Christian, which my husband doesn't mind at all about, his family aren't bothered either, i know a lot of men who marry women with orfi contracts dont care what religion their wives practice. when they get married at the embassy they usually "persuade" their wives to convert. I told my husband many times before we married that there was no way that I will ever convert. however, i have said that when we have children, they can be Muslim. Your guy might be like mine in the sense that religion doesn't matter.

By the way, most Egyptian guys are very sweet and wonderful to European women, most of them also come out with the same lines "my heart is white", "I'm not like the snake, i am only one way, trust me", "I love you so much, i cant live without you", "nice paradise", "you are very beautiful like the moon in the sky, and there is only one moon" etc etc,

behind the womens backs that say "no honey, no money"! I'm not talking about a few guys here either, im talking about 90%.

I love my husband very much and he makes me very happy. you are very lucky if you have found one of the decent ones, he works hard to provide for me (this is also very rare) as it so hard for a female to get a job in Luxor, i am unable to work at present. All I am saying is that make sure that you don't look into those deep twinkling brown eyes of his, listen to his cheesy chat up lines and decide that you are in love with him, its hard but let your head rule you and not your heart.

Please, Please be careful, i can tell you awful stories about what Luxor men have done to their European wives, things like this happen every day here, if you would like to email me at any time then please feel free.

Good Luck, and make sure you do your homework on this guy! I hope he is one of the good ones!

Louise x

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