Thank you Lilly

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Jun 22, 2008 at 07:57

Thank you for your very kind words Lilly. I can see that you are a very passionate person and that you have a good understanding of your man's culture as well by not pushing him to leave Morocco. I also have not pushed or my man to leave Egypt. He has family that he is responsible for (being the eldest son), a business and assets that he has to manage and moving him away from all of that to a strange country could be a disaster for our relationship. I am quite happy travelling to Egypt 4 or 5 times a year and I am lucky that my employment and family situation allows me to do this. As I love the Egyptian people, the country and the culture all this travel comes easy to me.

He will visit my country, probably next year for a couple of weeks as a tourist and we will see what happens from there.

I personally know a Moroccan man in my city who has married a western woman. They are a very happy couple and have 4 beautiful children. They regularly travel to Morocco to visit family and friends and he runs 2 very successful businesses here. They are quite the success story. I have spoken to them both at length about my relationship with my Egyptian partner and they have always been supportive and encouraging.

In summary - I am not going to be the one who said "What if...... ?" I hope that his helps you too and I know that you will make the right decision - for you!

Good luck & please keep in touch.

Isis

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