Mother to wed holiday toyboy
A 44-year-old Staffordshire mum has today told of her plans to marry an Egyptian man half her age who she met while taking a holiday abroad last year.
Kim Greathead, who is from Cherry Tree Road, based in Norton Canes, said that she believes that the relationship with 22-year-old bar waiter Ali Abdl Alaal will last.
The lovestruck couple met over a cocktail while Kim was on a two-week break with her mother, who was recuperating from a hip operation, to Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh.
Throughout the holiday Kim and Ali remained close but it was not until she returned home to Norton Canes that the relationship really got off the ground.
Kim said: “We fell in love by text really. When my trip ended and Ali promised to text I didn’t think he would. It was only when he started texting me that it took off.”
Despite the sceptics Kim agreed to marry Ali when he asked to tie the knot by text and visited him in October for two weeks on her own.
She said: “That was lovely to see him and we spent a lot of time together and got to know each other. I suppose we do have a lot of things in common and being there with him made me fall even more in love I think.
“I know it is going to be difficult, there is a lot of prejudice going on about the relationship because he has got to come out here to live.
“He wanted me to go there at first but I can’t do that because I have responsibilities here. I have a daughter so that was it,” she said.
“He is really worried about coming to live out here, he isn’t doing this just for a visa otherwise why would he want me to go out there to him,” she added.
Describing her 22-year-old fiancee as very romantic, Kim said that their wedding has since been put on hold after Ali’s father was seriously hurt in an accident but they had been hoping to marry in January.
She added: “Ali is a Muslim but that isn’t causing us any trouble, he doesn’t expect me to follow Muslim rules.”
Now Kim and Ali talk regularly via a webcam over the internet and are waiting for when she can travel to Egypt for their wedding.
[Express&Star]
Saturday, January 06, 2007
a Mother to wed her holiday toyboy
I find this very interesting. He is exactly half her age, and she has a daughter. I wonder how old her daughter is. I would imagine she is around the age of the Egyptian man her mother will marry, or a few years younger. I'm not against the older woman/younger man thing (or the other way around)... I just can't imagine how it would feel to have my mother (or father) marrying someone my own age.
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Dear God, no. This is the oldest stunt in the book of Egpytian tourism. Hence the reason the American Embassy in Cairo is highly suspicious of spousal visa applications between Egyptian men and American women. I came across so many foreign women in Egypt getting their groove back. One so desperate to be a wife, she actually became a 2nd wife, living in a separate city from her Egyptian husband, seeing him once a month, at best.
And so many of the Egyptian men are all for it. I know for a fact that many of the guys working in Sharm do so in hopes of finding a foreign woman to marry (or to fool around with).
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