biggest obstacle

Submitted by harper520 (United States), Jul 20, 2009 at 17:03

My boyfriend (Egyptian/Muslim) and I live together so maybe my experience is different than most but for me the biggest obstacle has been religion and possibly the fact that I am not religious.

The second obstacle that might be even greater is his tendency not to be honest about things such as having a wife back in Egypt and such. He is able to justify much of this with his religion(for example: that he can have more than one wife so its not cheating or that in order to get a divorce he would have to pay her or that it was an arrangement by his mother and sister and he doesn't love her) and this is something that is more than foreign to me and causes me the greatest concern with regard to our relationship.

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