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[QUOTE]Originally posted by wise_woman: [QB] Hi Deborah, I rented a beautiful furnished 2 bedroom flat for 2 weeks (7 years ago)in Luxor it cost me less than £50 sterling. From the little I know, an orfi paper costs about LE20. Can you be sure the family he introduced you to was actually his family? This wouldn't be the first time that an Egyptian man (who uses many nicknames) introduces his tourist girlfriend to a family on the opposite side of town from his real family. No way does any "legal" document cost £900 English or LE 900 Egyptian pounds. By telling you that he paid that kind of money for it, can only make you think more highly of him. He must be earning great money and be in a fantastic job if he can save up £900 English for a piece of legal paper, that you weren't even there to understand, read and sign. Do lawyers hand out legal papers to couples with just one of them being present? If he does love you, he will, with chaperone, take you to Cairo to the address that Jacqueline provides in her opening post, and pay for documents at the Minstry of Justice and separate rooms in hotel. To keep everything respectable and proper. He should treat you like the princess he probably says you are. They all say that - you are his princess or queen. There is nothing stopping him from having many tourist orfi wives, I have seen this happen. If you want to be his pretend wife for 2 or 3 weeks of the year, then that's fine but you'll never know what's going on in his life the rest of the year. They are rarely the exclusive partner of just one tourist. But some people don't mind sharing. On your next holiday, would it be possible, someone on the board correct me if this isn't the Egyptian way, but if his family have a spare bed, could Deborah stay with them and truly experience Egyptian life? So that if they accept her as his real and legal wife, chances are she will be expected to live with him and his family at the family home. Let me understand this, your mother and father stayed in the hotel and allowed you to stay in a rented flat with a strange man you had met for 1 or 2 weeks before? Would you share a flat, separate rooms of course, with the attractive man you speak to at the bus stop on the way to work, after chatting to him for a few weeks? Would you know him well enough to do that? If anything happened to you at the flat, would you have the correct full name for this man, his address, any way of tracking him down? I'm not having a go at you Deborah, just a bit surprised at the quickness of it all and concerned at the lack of your judgement when it comes to personal safety and falling in love so quickly. I hope you get a chance to read some of the older postings on this board from other tourist girlfriends. Others in the future will read this posting and we have all made some valid points. If I got in a taxi and a man I hardly knew, but I knew his nickname, wanted to share it with me, I'd stick the heid on him. I'm more aware of my safety abroad where everyone is a stranger. Be careful and don't rush into anything. [This message has been edited by wise_woman (edited 25 June 2003).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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