To Vivi - delusions

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Apr 6, 2009 at 20:14

Sorry Vivi but your situation is not necessarily a scam. Many British women before you have been very generous with their charms and money and have therefore set a precedent so much so that many of these poor, young, handsome Egyptian men expect the world from a foreign woman and especially British women. This can include them being set on the road to financial security and a better life than they would ever hope to achieve in their low paid jobs and poverty line existence in a village.

You mentioned that in the course of your relationship you have only been to see him once but have talked to him constantly on the phone. This hardly constitutes a loving relationship and I think that maybe you have deluded yourself into thinking that you "love" this man.

Living here in Egypt I see this scenario acted out constantly and it's always the women that get hurt as the men move on easily to the next willing and gullible tourist. Holiday romances are very rarely successful in the long term especially when eastern and western cultures are so vastly different.

What more can I say? Learn and move on as time will heal.

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