being conned by a tunisian younger man

Submitted by susanne (United Kingdom), Mar 29, 2010 at 03:46

I married in 2006, to a younger man from tunisia, his family, are not poor and after lots of dicussions of what was expected from us both in the marriage, e went ahead and married. What a mistake, I sold my house to invest and make money in Tunisia. Yes I know what your thinking, and I was nervous, but I was asked to show some trust, now we were married. however he shortly went to visit his family and promptly spent my £70.000 on a piece of land and a small two bed flat. To this day he has never produed any evidence of the sale of either.

Yes it caused rows between us, but I tried to believe that his words were to be true. He was not out to rip me off like all the others, he married me becasue he loved me. funny that, after taking a live in carers job, and getting his indefinite to remain he wanted a divorce. No surprise and Im left panicking. We over come this, so I was lead to believe, O such a fool I am, no, his plan was not only that he would not move back with me as a husband, he rubbished every suggestion I made in getting a buisness started between us, anything to end up living together again. No that was too committing and off course, I knew by the way he behaved with me, the way he spoke with me when with friends that there must have been the odd women or three along the line.

Well after trying to get his english citizenship, and still him telling me he wont leave his job to live with me, as we were short of money, yes we are but if we did not get back together and support each other, and work at getting ourselves on our feet, some reassurance from him that he was at least trying, but no comforting words, and plenty of nights out on his part he finally tells me, Yes he has left me, had I not realised, yes I had it took a year of me nagging him for the truth and him being turned down for the british citizenship, either way he got it or not he was already gone. So is my money,

I have attempted to ask him twice to come and see a solicitor here in england, I need something on paper to prove that he spent my money, and that after not living with me as a husband should have done, and to acknowledge that he will pay me back my money in a reasonable time, after all he spent it quick enough when I was to put it in a bank to earn me interest before deciding what I wanted to invest my money into, The bottom line is, Yes it is plain to see that these last two years he ahs spent networking new friends, mostly women, and making sure everyone he came across knew he was a single man doing hs own buisness, he never acknowledge me at all to anyone, he never invited me to go along with him at any time, in fact it is as if I never excisted, in fact his facebook profile has proven that and the fact I had caught him out placing profiles on one more than one relationship site, advertising himself as single, and only realising this all in the last few weeks, as I never used face book he knew that, and all this time playing me for a fool. I doubt I will get a penny back.

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