Each person is diffferent

Submitted by AmrsSoul (United States), May 23, 2010 at 12:14

My husband is an Egyptian Muslim and he is a wonderful man. We did meet online, but we met in person once before we got engaged and then we were engaged for 6 months with me in the USA and another 5 months with me living in Egypt before we married. I am very happy in my marriage and my husband is more helpful than most American men I know. He helps with the laundry, cleaning and cooking. I do university online and if I have an exam he will not let me do ANYTHING, not even make tea for 2-3 days before the exam so that I can study in peace. His family will say things to him about how I should be removing the fish from the bones for him and things like that, but he tells them this is how we are together. We decided to make our own culture and not force one of us to have to conform to the others culture.

You should always be careful in matters of the heart, whether you are in the US or involved with someone out of the country. Bad men are everywhere, but so are good men. I get so angry when I hear women complain about Egyptian men and say they are so bad, because not all of them are and in reality some of these women are just as at fault for being nieve and desperate.

LADIES: be careful when you choose a man, don't rush into a marriage without knowing him, his family and his friends. Don't marry a foreigner thinking you can come back to the US, because the visa could get denied. Be smart, ask questions and be willing to see the real person and not just what you want them to be. There are bad men everywhere but marrying a foreigner puts more stress on the relationship at first so you must be willing to fight for it.

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