TRUE TRUE TRUE

Submitted by Little Vic (United Kingdom), Jun 28, 2010 at 18:34

Yep its true....some families in Turkey are still living in the dark ages!! I have been with my current Turkish boyfriend for almost a year and his mum is still insisting on finding a wife for him!!! We even live together in Istanbul without his parents knowing and we are both 30!!! If you believe that your relationship will work then just go with it..... My boyfriend doesnt talk his mother half as much since she refuses to listen to him. So if he loves you then he will tell his mother how he feels and she will either except it or HAVE to except it. My previous fiancee was Turkish and his parents were really religious, yet they had no problem with our relationship.....think it really depends on the family. May I ask, where in Turkey is this guy from? This also has alot to do with it.....Eastern Turkey is alot stricter against multi cultural relationships!

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