Reply to ADI

Submitted by Just_Me (United States), Jun 8, 2009 at 22:57

i am 27 and got married 2 years ago. i live in israel. i fell deeply in love with a muslim pakistani man from england who is married and has 3 children. we can't live without each other and want to get a divorce and get married. i told him i wont become muslim and he accepted it .the big question is will it work? is true love enough? i will have to leave my family , and all friends here and more to england completly alone. and how will my children grow up? half muslim and half jewish? i am really tired of thinking ...please help me decide. he is the love of my life !!!!

I just can't believe what you are saying and thinking to do. Whoever said that 99.999999999999% of Muslims support Palestine, she was right!! How can you leave your HUSBAND for some guy I'm assuming you talk to online only? Not only that, but you are encouraging him to be a half-absent father from HIS CHILDREN?? Are you crazy?

Your children with him will never be half and half; they will be Muslim. Go ahead and ask him now how he wants to raise his children and you will see. I'm at a stand-still with my Egyptian because of this issue, and we've discussed it like 5 times already, and he will not compromise, so we aren't going anywhere. And he will try to get you to become Muslim, mine has already tried twice. Once online, and then in person and they always try to provide materials or websites that they think are the most convincing. Then when you say no, they say it's ok and it doesn't matter, but then the way you live your life will be under Muslim influence.

How can you say he is the love of your life? Didn't you feel the same way when you got married? Obviously love is not enough if you are willing to divorce your husband to marry this other guy.

And don't say you can't live without each other. Obviously you can because you're still apart! Don't leave your family, don't restrict your own rights or put your children through this, don't put everything into this MAN. Like someone else said, in the end you have to answer before GOD.

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