Thanks for the insights, Hisham

Submitted by Lisa (United States), Jun 24, 2008 at 22:23

Thanks Hisham, it is very insightful to have someone on the board who is from that culture, please stick around. You will be a lot of help to the women who come here!

I do want to clarify- while I think he used me and might not be the nicest guy in the world, the man I knew in Egypt didn't treat me with the extreme disrespect that I posted about, he was fairly nice to me, although he didn't respect me or take me seriously or really care about me. I was talking more about the extreme stories of how many men in that culture act that I have heard here and elsewhere, like Luigi's posts about men raping Scandanavian women because they think it is ok, and things like that. I don't want to make my former man sound worse than he was! He may have been an insensitive womanizer, but he is not cruel or horrible.

Your advice that I should run away and a relationship like that would lead to my emotional decline is RIGHT ON. Thank you, I needed to hear that. I was sad and disappointed when the relationship was over because i cared for him, but I also felt relief and peace because I knew it was the right thing.

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