Sorry for your experience---Good and Bad Muslim men

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Jul 11, 2010 at 17:17

I'm sorry that your man cheated on you like that, that is awful. It would be trite to say "well, these things happen" if I may hijack a quote from a priest.

The reality is that on-line dating in general is loaded with scams, and the ones who are not scammers, well a good percentage of them are people who lie and cheat.

I think you make a good point though----a few years is not a long time, and I'm not sure that some of our readers understand that. International visa scammers really are that patient.

As for married women coming on here and defending their relationships---well, if they really were that utopian, I doubt they would be on here. There are all sorts of varying degrees with which matrimonial problems occur. Some of the women on here may not be experiencing significant issues worthy of a divorce, but others are just down right miserable and it's so plain and obvious.

There are good Muslim men out there, but that does not mean they make good partners for middle-aged Western women. Even when you eliminate the scammers, the liars and the cheats, there's always going to be cultural differences. So it's not always that he's bad or she's bad, it's just that two people are not compatible.

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