hmmm I am married to a Muslim and have found none of this true

Submitted by Annie (United States), Jun 10, 2007 at 19:11

Hi Mark,

I read everything that you have written, and to tell you the truth, I shake my head a little. First of all my husband (who is from Turkey and is here on an educational Visa) celebrated not only Easter, but Valentine's day (in which he cooked dinner, Memorial day, mother's and father's day..and just recently we were on vacation and he picked up an ornament for the tree. for Christmas this year.. So I don't know if it is fair to "glob" everyone as the same, and maybe that is not what you were doing.

Now I will say there is a male alpha thing going on, but more than once I have stood my ground and he has apologized. Maybe some possible differences is that he was born in Bulgaria and raised there for 10 years before his family was forced to immigrate to Turkey. But his mother is Turkish and father Bulgarian. I don't know what difference that makes, maybe some maybe none. Now he is in his 20's and I believe that this generation is more open to equality, things are changing a lot in Turkey, as for other countries in the middle east, I don't know. Any feed back is interesting. Just as you are not this way, it may be unfair to assume that everyone else is.

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