They're just after the meal ticket

Submitted by Wanda (United States), Jun 17, 2008 at 05:21

I too was charmed up by one of those met online. Totally sweet man. Said he was a "virgin" at 40! With time, he could not hide the fact that he paid prostitutes to serve him. Check it out, he told me that "in Morocco you are still a virgin if you do not penetrate a woman." So he scrubbed himself against thighs and anything else, and claimed to be virginally innocent.

So we planned the marriage thing. I was going to meet him -at my expense- to see how we liked each other. Then I found out what it could cost me. I told him I was not willing to spend so much money to just check a man out. His reply? "If you love me, you do."

He had already offered his brother and a sister to come to the States once we married. What the heck was my house going to turn into, the INS?

So he was rejected twice for a visa into the US. As he claims, because he was not socially stable. Meaning, he was so poor. Then he played the sad card on me "I am just a poor writer," "you're just all about money," blah blah.

And then there was religion. I could not even chat about Star Wars. Yoda looked demonic to him! The culture seemed totally primitive. I was expected to convert to Islam too, and cover my head. ... in America we accept people as they come! Oh yeah, and then he wanted me to give him three babies. He wanted girls to make sure they'll take care of him in his old age. All his sisters were nice and illiterate, taking care of their father...

When I started thinking, it felt very good to move far and away from this nonsense. I realized I was not so needy to spend a fortune bringing some dirt poor, money hungry element from Morocco into my land. I can meet men here too, and go see Star Wars without feeling it was forbidden or would take me to hell.

My advice is, ladies, PLEASE THINK before you bring one more of these into the country!

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