Advice for Samantha

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Sep 20, 2009 at 19:54

You have met this man online and you are willing to risk the relationship with your boyfriend because " i do not want to be stupid about this but i wish to give myself the chance" . Please understand that this relationship with the man iin Cairo is not real it is something that you have fabricated because of his online persona which will be totally different to his persona in real life. If you do decide to visit him in Cairo my advice is to not stay in the family home but give yourself some space in stay by yourself in a hotel until you know him much better. As much as you have researched about Egyltian life and culture nothing will prepare you for the vast differences from western life in family culture and tradition, the Islamic religion, the unending Government bureaucracy which impacts greatly on relationships between men and women and particularly Egyptian men having relationships with foreign women. If you take this relationship to a higher level you have much to learn with a great chance of it failing and you losing out on all counts.

Sorry to be so blunt and dire but this is the truth.

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