Mine was engaged to someone else and never told me

Submitted by Sarah (United States), Mar 18, 2010 at 12:09

I had been going out with my Pakistani Muslim boyfriend for 2 years. I loved him, and was even going to convert to Islam. From the very begining i made sure he understood i wanted to get married and have kids more than anything. Him and his whole family lived near where i work, and we would hang out after work, and on weekends. Most of his brothers knew about me but he never took me home to meet his parents, even though this really bothered me. He said he can't bring me home unless he was engaged to me. Well things were wonderful, I also had picked out my wedding cake, and wedding dress, and had NEVER done that before. He bought me tons of presents, i had been going through a tough time, and he was amazingly supportive, on the days we were not together he called me every day in the morning on the way to work, and before we went to sleep. I worked on his buisness, to help him and in the two years we made his buisness worth 1.5-2million dollars. Just 2 months ago, i got an annonymous message that there must be a mistake, and i can't be his girlfriend because he was engaged to a girl in pakistan for almost a year. I confronted him, and he lied, and lied, and sat me down, and had a heart to heart with me about how impossible it was for him to be engaged to someone else. Less than a week later he broke up with me. I called his mother and his dad told me that it was true, he was engaged, and he was getting married soon. He was married LESS THAN 2 months after he broke up with me. Now all i'm left with is a broken heart, and the buisness i had helped him create is going to pay for him and his wife. So let me tell you, you were SAVED! It could have been much worse.

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