re: viking woman

Submitted by kelly (Egypt), Apr 28, 2008 at 03:35

My contract does in fact state a sum of money and land to be paid to me should we divorce. i never requested this but my husbands family thought it was appropiate. Also i have an added bonus in my contract. there is a pargraph in my contract - as required by the british embassy that he must sign to agree that he will only have one wife. NOT the 4 he is permitted to have by his religion.

Currently my name is on some of he deeds for his families land. A gift from them when we got married. Any normal marriage to a muslim man you get given something like this as a welcome from his family. Many of these marriages on ths site dont even meet their inlaws until after marriage - a very strange pracise among muslims. Also many often worry about their husbands taking a second wife - this i cant understand as it was required for my husband to agree to marry only one wife. Just to clarify - some people may think that i think this because this is what i've been told by my husband - as the islamic marriage contract is in arabic, however - i have the official translation in english from the british consulate in Cairo. They needed for me to fully understand what i was signing before they could give permisson for our marriage.

Yes you are correct - my children will be muslim, something i knew about before marriage. And we will agree (should we ever need to) depending on what is best for the children. If they should stay with their mum or their dad. I have previously meet two divorced women here, one a western christian woman and one and egyptian muslim, and both kept their children, but i'm not sure of all the details - what they went through to get to this point. My husband's mum, has been previously married and him and his sister stayed with their mum, even when she remarried. So he fully understands how important it is for children to be with their mum.

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