another concerned mother

Submitted by Marie (United States), Dec 9, 2008 at 22:38

I am also a mother very much afraid for my daughter. She is 41, has a successful traveling career and has met a much younger Turkish man in a well known turkish city. She wants him to live with her. He says he wants to marry her. They will meet again in Jan. He sweet talked her and has asked her for alot of money to pay for a palace that they can rent for ten days in January. She says it is an engagement party but we are not invited.

She won't listen to our concerns that he is trying to avoid joining the army and that may be why he wants to marry her in USA. I have tried everything calling him her "boy toy" and her his "sugar mama" but she wants wants him and wants to get married so badly she doesn't care. Guess there's not much more we can do?

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