To Luigi re why women come to this blog

Submitted by yasemin (Canada), Jul 10, 2008 at 17:59

I can answer this question Luigi :) Three years ago, I had just arrived to meet my romantic psycho bigamist husband-to-be in Istanbul. My head was full of stars and i was totally smitten with my handsome exotic turkish man who sang love songs to me on a street filled with a million passers-by.

I remember how i reacted when a woman said to me Be careful - he might just want a visa. Well-meaning advice was wasted on me at that point. I was horrified and defensive and didn't believe for one second that "my guy" was one of these men. I was also angry that she had stained my bright world with her words. My husband was angry too when i told him. I thought she had dishonored my man.

but she was right.

And so i think women who come here fall into 2 groups - the ones who dare to seek the truth and have suspicions and aren't as totally blind as i was. Or the women who were warned as i was and are angry and want to say to all of us Go away, stop raining on my parade, you're wrong, i've found a good one. I was one of these women. I never spoke to that woman again.

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