To Lisa - more on you and your man

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Sep 10, 2009 at 22:31

Reading your post about your Moroccan husband was like reading a mirror image of my relationship with my Egyptian husband before we managed to actually be together in the same country. I could call him any day or night and he was always available. The conversation always atarted with "Hello Baby" and ended with "I love you". We didn't communicate over the web but chose to keep our relationship on a personal level and because of the difficulty for him to obtain a visa to Australia, I visited him in Egypt often and we both had horrendous phone bills. We have been together for nearly 5 years and still going strong. We have no arguments, no cultural problems and no family difficulties .We enjoy each others cultures, families and friends and are fulfilled being partners in love, marriage and business. As your husband does, he also keeps a closed book on our lives which has alienated him from some in Egypt but as he says "It's not for my life or my business on what others think".

As I have said many times before there are good men in Egypt and Morocco but they won't be found hassling and sweet talking the foreign on the net or in the tourist spots - they are out working hard and trying to better themselves without the need to fleece gullible and naive women. The good ones are intelligent, educated and informed and they won't be found sailing a felucca on the Nile or driving a caleshe on the Corniche in Luxor.Good Egyptian men won't be found outside a souk touting for business, posing as a tour guide or lurking in a corner of the "disco" (they still call them that) at Murphy's Irish Pub, waiting on tables at the Sheraton Karnak or driving you in their battered taxi to the Valley of the Kings .And they certainly won't be found in an internet cafe surfing the dating sites for hours on end.

Good on you and your man and stay happy!

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