Red Flags

Submitted by sls2 (United States), Sep 22, 2008 at 02:04

I dated an Egyptian guy for 2 years back in college. We could have been brother and sister. I questioned my husband about my nationallity when he asked me to marry him, and he said they don't look at skin color of women. As a matter of fact I look alot like the women from his Country. I have beautiful fair skin in what we call as light-skinned for blacks because of my Native American roots. I have beautiful long black hair. But I also thought that was the reason he didn't want to open his cam. I did notice he is always in an Internet Cafe when we chat, and its very late when I am able to chat with him, so there is no one hardly around. He shows no signs of being ashame of me when I go to his country. We just didn't go around any of his family. He makes me feel that he is running from something, always talking about the visa coming through soon.

I saw racism amongs them. He told me that they didn't marry Egyptian, Morroccan, Iraqi or Iranian women. He said they only married Jordanian or Palistinian women. Now that he is divorced from the one his Mother picked for him, he doesn't want another one, so he say. He is choosing now to go against his family traditions, but will not tell them. I too haven't told many about him, only a few. Not that I would be ashamed of him.

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