I am thinking to live with a muslim man

Submitted by Maria (United States), Feb 15, 2008 at 12:37

I was reading all your comments...and scared me some...because my muslim man is starting to behave like in your stories. But I was thinking as well as muslims americans, brazilians,etc...

I met this guy egyptian here in the US , he was with his son and i was with my daughter ..we started a truly friendship...i liked him too much and because looks exoctic...in our lives we had a lot of things in common...we were married americans...our children are the same age...they looks alike...we came to the us the same year the same month...and our stories were similar....I loved to share moments with him and his son...soon we were inseparables...our children love each other....

everything was perfect until december one day he stopped to calling me and of course i was not going to call him...so he called me in january and told me that he has changed (now he is more religious), ..he didn.t wanna kiss me anymore in the cheek..he needs to pray 5 times per day.

I noticed this because if we were in some mall he was in a hurry to back to his house or some place that he could pray...I didnt care in that moment....in april 07 in my birthday he took my hand and kissed me in my lips and told me he was not supposed to do that..but he is falling in love with me...i was so happy....but when i saw him next time he was different distant, he didnt have more time for me...i felt terrible .....

in may he went to my house one night to talk.... my daughter was sleeping ..so...it didn't happen but was close...and then the next morning he left my house without word...he didnt answer my phone calls and i went to his house and he told me he doesnt want this, he wants a wife I was stunned...he was talking about marriage! i didnt understand at all, no more phone calls for about three months...but i was missing him too much i was so deppressed...down...i felt really down...so I read about muslims, and i decided to call him to marry him....

well we did it in a strange way...in a muslim way...i was not even there..but i was just before because i decided to convert into islam....those days was wonderful...it was in august 07 I back home to south america and i realized that i cannot no change the way that i was raised, i celebrate christmas, i want to dance i want to go to bars...to a parties...go to the cinema...all of this is forbidden for him but not for me...so when i backed to the US......he even doesnt want to have a christmas tree in the house. so for that reason i didnt move with him.

after my trip everything was wrong I can be a muslim but i want to keep my christian holidays and at least share christmas with him ...he doenst understand me ..so i didnt see him in december...and we back together in this january...he insists to move together ...he is very lovable with my child , my child loves him...i am still love him......and i am not sure he loves me now...he has change he never call me anymore...i am the one who make the phone calls....may be i should move with him....he wanna marry me in the court as well... he is almost 10 years younger than me...i can live without parties...but how my child is gonna live between two different cultures completely different...may be he wants another wife in the future....all this thoughts in my head are drivng me crazy!!!

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