To Egypt

Submitted by Ruth Renowden (United Kingdom), Aug 4, 2008 at 06:10

I really appreciate your comments Egypt. He works in one of the big hotel complexes. We communicate daily and he seems genuinly to care for me. I told him how upset i was when he asked me for money to fix his house and he seemed surprised and sorry that this upset me and has not asked me again.

I have seen his house which is an apartment really but needs a lot of work. It is in a block overlooking the river but I would say quite a poor area. Not what I am used to but I am not a materialistic person and would enjoy the challenge of making a home with him there. If I am honest I would rather live in Sharm or maybe Cairo but we would not be able to afford to do that.

Unlike a lot of the women in the stories i have read here I was in a long term relationship when I met my Egyptian husband. (I had been married previously to an English man who was violent jealous unfaithful and cruel. I still bear scars both mentally and physically from that relationship and so do my children.)I always refused to marry the man with whom I entered into a long term relationship after this disatrous marriage or commit myself to him too deeply. He is a good and kind man who looked after me and my children when we desperately needed it. And I did and still do love him. But I never fell in love with him and he always knew that.

I think he also knew that one day I might leave him which I did when I fell in love with my Egyptian husband. I have told my Egyptian husband that I have no money because the fact is that I don't except final salary etc... and a small amount in savings. The only asset I have is the shared equity in a house that I bought jointly with the man I lived with before I met my husband and he still lives there with my youngest daughter and I would never ask him to sell it.

He and the house are the security and continuity that my youngest daugter and the rest of my family need and deserve in their lives. I know there is no way of knowing what the future holds but I do know nationality has nothing to do with the ability to be cruel and unkind and using. If my husband turns out to be a bad man I will be devastated. The times I have spent with him are some of the best of my life. My heart is full of him.

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