RAQUEL! Please read what you wrote here!

Submitted by concerned (United States), Jan 5, 2007 at 15:48

Raquel, I just finished reading your story and feel compelled to respond.

Please read your comments again, as if they were from someone else, a good friend, or even a stranger. What would your reaction be? Can you honestly say that there is not something seriously wrong with the picture? So many red flags, I can't begin to address them one by one. 2 weeks... dictating rules... insults... threats... conditions... obvious tales of other women marrying his friends for convenience... must I go on??

Please rethink this situation. I do not get what you are seeing as a reason to marry. 32? so what? That should never be a reason to marry anyone. Too many cultural and religious differences and you are clearly being intimidated!

Please, for your own life's sake, get out of this situation before you are brainwashed into thinking it is the only option for you. Consider yourself warned.

Wishing you the best in your continued, free, normal life... Concerned

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