Cheryl

Submitted by Lisa (United States), Jun 24, 2008 at 22:06

Hi Cheryl,

so, how did you find out the truth? I am sorry for the difficult experience you are going through. Like everything, it gets better in time and you will get less angry and hurt, my situation was nowhere near as serious as yours- I met a man while I was on a long vacation and became involved there, and stayed in touch via email and phone after I got home. It never got to the point of talk of marriage or anything like that, thank goodness, but it was still hard, so I can imagine how you feel.

You are right that knowing the language would be very helpful, but Arabic is very difficult to learn, and from what I understand, there are many dialects that are so different that someone speaking Egyptian Arabic would have a hard time communicating with someone speaking Moroccan Arabic and so on.

But yes, I remember hearing people talk, looking at me while they were talking so I knew it was about me, and waiting for the translation. "He said you are very pretty." Yeah, right! It is hard when you have to rely on somebody else to translate everything for you, especially when you don't know if you can trust them or not.

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