Thanks for sharing.

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Feb 23, 2008 at 18:10

Thanks for sharing. That all sounds nice. It sounds like you are pretty determined to go through with this. It seems like you've thought this through pretty well, which is good considering that nearly half of all international marriages from Canada fail.

Two more things to keep in mind: Islamic culture is different, yes, but I can absolutely guranuntee you that falling in love too quickly is often the worst omen for any distance relationship. I've seen it happen with Russian women, Nigerian women besides Moroccan men. Marriages do occur in a short time frame in Islam sometimes , but I would bet these are arranged and the punishment for women who object to this is quite severe.

The other thing: not finding a good enough Moroccan woman. A lot of these men get married because they want a Western woman purely because it's different and ups their percieved status, or they are doing global Islam a favor. Believe me, the success rate of these marriages is low for plenty of reasons.

The thing is that a lot of these situations start out nice, but its after marriage that things turn upside down. I feel a lot better that he has friends who are married to other foreigners, but do you know this for certain?

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