I only try to see if he really is open minded or just thinks he is  hE SAID IN FORUM THAT HE IS LOOKING A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP NO MATTER DIFFERENCES OF CULTURE...MAYBE I WANT TO CANDIDATE   is this man honest enough?

you sound like a JUDGE rathern than a candidate though

the thread is HIGHLY enterteining..thanx all for a dose of laughter

 +1

it´s funny

love finds solutions. always. love is very tender, kind and noble.

in any marriage, if wife is on diet, should husband eat salad leaves only? if husband has stomach ulcer, should wife eat cereals only? of course they can support each other and have similar meal, but it is not reason to stop eating fat pork in first case and spicy beans in other. you easily can serve your husband smth vegetarian and out stake on your plate and enjoy the evening together.

besides that it is better to wash the knife to switch from meat to salad, especially from cutting raw meat...

due to you muslim vegetarian should marry muslim vegetarian only, besides that i guess education, origin, age etc should be absolutely the same to avoid any possible differences and difficulties.

 Just 2 weeks ago my boyfriend came from Turkey with 2 turkish guests..we made barbaque with chicken for them...they were looking all the time even they didnt eat the bread we touched it..it was embarassing..

 This was the message from which i started my questions !!!!

The following is taken from an article about a marriage study. Note the findings in bold later that suggest which factors are not a major influence on lasting marriages.

Opposites attract - or so the saying goes - but a new study suggests this may not be the key to a long-lasting marriage.

Academics from the Australian National University tracked the relationships and characteristics of nearly 2,500 couples between 2001 and 2007.

They found the factors that increased the likelihood of marriage breakdown included differences in age, desire for children, work and alcohol and smoking.

Divorce was twice as likely for couples in which the husband was nine or more years older than his wife.

And the same risk applied in marriages in which the man was two or more years younger than his wife.

Couples were twice as likely to split if the wife had a much stronger preference for children or for more of them.

Smoking and drinking rates also contributed to relationship breakdown.

Relationships in which one person smoked and the other did not were between 75 and 90 per cent more likely to end than those of non-smoking couples.

It was a similar story if the wife was a heavier drinker than her husband.

People whose parents were divorced were also more likely to divorce, so too were those who had children born before the marriage.

Couples in which both people had been previously married had a 90 per cent higher chance of splitting than those marrying for the first time.

Unemployment and or perceived financial stress of the husband, but not the wife, also played a role.

Factors that were not important included country of birth, religious background and education levels.

As well as the number and age of children, a woman´s employment status and years in paid employment did not play a role.

The study, called What´s love got to do with it? estimates that a quarter of relationships will end within six years and 50 per cent by 25 years.

hm and what?

i also had many guests from Turkey, some ate food, some complained. it is not my problem. i come to other country and expect things to be different. you did your best - offered food, your part was done dependless on whether they ate or not. it is just your personal reaction to situation, though it cannot be generalized. I also behave like that sometimes, bec i m not sure my stomach will be ok with offered food. Maybe it is offensive for  mistress of the house, but it is my life, my stomach. and if offered food is not my usual or appealing i will stay away  - instinct of self-preservation. nothing personal, just my health.

and i cannot be considered turkish in any way.

It looks stupid to you because you do not know the difference between the ritual you are talking about and a good hot bubble bath.

I assume your reference is to  the "ablution ritual" in Islam.  Ablution has little to do with physical cleanliness;  in fact this ritual generally follows a good bath, hence achieves very little to increase a person´s (a person who has already washed himself thoroughly) physical cleanliness.

As its name indicates, this ritual is to mark a person´s intention to absolve his soul to a state of purity, in preparation to be in the presence of his Creator. As every ritual,  it has its own rules, some of which may not seem pragmatic to the uninitiated.

[Diary of an Expat Bride] The receiving end

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