To be creative----Increasing his feelings from friend to romance in Egypt-----Part 2 Cliche-mania from Egypt

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Mar 5, 2009 at 22:17

Welcome back, becreative!

I'll cut to the chase: I don't like this at all. Your situation now has some pretty clear red flags.

First of all, you mentioned you used to be married and that was a long time ago and a process which you do not wish to go through again. Scammers frequently target divorced women.

Second of all, having a FRIEND who is supposedly married buy you clothes-----that's a no-no! Don't be surprised if he expects something in return---like sex! Speaking of which, becreative, if you two were just friends, how did sex all of a sudden come into the picture? This sounds like trouble, and early sex pretty means an early exit to any relationship

Third, a lot of liars and scammers are more than happy to talk about, well, the liars and scammers and how bad and nasty that is. It isn't like the Nigerian lotto men who break out in sweat and run from TV cameras, oh no, becreative, these men (and women in my experience) WILL stand their ground and if necessary, they will even threaten to end it all.

Just listen to yourself....HAVE to trust??? I've heard that one on here before, and it means nothing less than blind faith in a stranger. If you don't trust someone (and I really don't see how you can completely trust him), then the fact of the matter is you don't; no shame in that!

It's hard to tell exactly what they are after until its too late. It's very possible this man just wants to get laid with a Western woman.

But whatever the motive, becreative, it hardly sounds like good intentions. If I were you, I would not go. It sounds like a sham whatever it is and this worrying seems to be taking the fun out of everything?

I am sorry, becreative, but I was afraid the situation was something like this.

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