Questions?

Submitted by harper520 (United States), Jun 19, 2009 at 15:24

Isis, thank you so much for your response and generousity in offering to answer my questions. I am currently living with and engaged to an Egyptian/Muslim man I met online. We talked daily via cam and phone for a few months before he came to live with me during the summer while school was out.

While I usually consider myself fairly sophisticated with regards to other cultures I'm feeling pretty lost right now. I found this website because I had questions about relationships with Muslim men and after reading numerous post here I have gone home from work several days upset and questioning everything about my relationship. He tells me my conversion to Islam is not something that he expects and the more I read and learn about Islam the less likely I feel I will ever even consider converting. I am not religious, though I was raised with a background in Catholicism, I have never practiced any religion. I guess my real concern is that he very much wants to start a family, he has two children with his ex-wife, but they live in Egypt with his family while his ex is American and converted to Islam and lives here in the states. I don't want my children to be raised in this religion, especially not my daughters.

Also, he plans to have his mother, sisters and children come and live with us and I don't want to feel like an outsider. I'm not sure if there is a question anywhere in here more just a need for insight on your experience and advice on if there is any hope that this could work out.

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