just wondering about the moroccan marriage "way"

Submitted by isabella (United States), Apr 19, 2008 at 00:18

hi all,

i'v been reading all the comments here and trying to figure out my moroccan friend... not boyfriend but strictly friend. Maybe someone might give me some insight on this. Ok so i'v been talking with my moroccan friend for a while for almost a year and he lives here in the United States, we talk once or two times a week on the phone just casual but recently he starts to get more flirty. I am 25 and he is 29 going on 30.

We are NOT physical, just you know friends that talk. Now he talks about wanting to 'give me a child'..lol.. anyways and he wants me to go to morocco to get married. He has never told me he loves me and we have never been physical, no kissing nothing at all and he wants to marry me? is this the moroccan or muslim way? Me being an american and having in my mind i have to be in love before i marry is a big deal and he just mentions a lot to me to take a trip to morocco getting married and living togeather, my response is i'll have to see. i dont quite know how to responde to a friends proposal like that. Can anyone at all tell me about the Moroccan culture?

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