My own update...:(

Submitted by Makelifefun100 (Qatar), Jan 10, 2009 at 03:55

So yesterday I post my story. Shortly after, my Tunisian man and I spend the afternoon together.

He first asks if I can go to Tunisia with him next month for a visit. He talks of marriage (it's only been a few weeks.) I ask him about if he was ever close to marriage before, and he shows me a picture of a girl in his phone from Tunisia. Says it has been over for a few years. (So why still have the picture...)Then...he asks to borrow money. Elaborate story of why, and that he can pay me back when his paycheck gets posted at the end of the month. Of course I told him no.

He was okay with this, but I am not. The stories are good and could make logical sense. But they also seem to fall into the normal pattern that everyone always describes. It makes me very sad, because even if he's being totally up front and honest it doesn't matter...I don't trust him and maybe I never would. What can come from a relationship without trust.

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