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at first: I am despeartely searchin for help or advice, so even if you dont have any answers maybe you know someone, a blog, forium or anything else where I could find help please, please let me know.

the story is: I am a Muslim woman living in Islamabad/Pakistan. I am truely in love with a white christian foreigner and he loves me. We are both in our end 20s and belong to the small educated community. My family is pretty liberal compared to Pakistani standards but this would be too much for them. Additionally I am livin in divorce, its in process but not finished yet so my muslim (ex-)husband still is in my identity card. my boyfriend and we are searchin for a safe way to live together in Islamabad until the end of the year. In this society neither a relationship without marriage is allowed, neither a relationship with a non-muslim man and of course this would be adultry on the paper right now. People are asking us all the time on the streets and everywhere else about our relationship and barely believe us when we tell them that we are only colleagues, they are not stupid. When we go into a hotel we always take two seperate rooms to safe the picture of the colleague story. We will stay together for whatever price but we dont want to die at least not pretty soon(this is a reason to be killed here and I am not joking happens quite often here and the courts and society give a shit about it as they are thinking we deserve it). I am grateful for every answer, help, recommendation, comment or experience, as the situation is serious and we are risking our lives right now for staying together as we love each other.
Posted on 03/23/09, 11:03 am
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Reply #1 - 05/24/09  10:53pm
" My Friend, First, Let me say you are a very curagious woman, however, let me tell you what I would do in your shoes. You MUST keep your relationship at present a secret, even if it means not speaking to one another for a while. Let the divorce become final and then you need a plan to get out. May I ask - Must you live in Islamabad? Can you leave there? Then, when the time is right, you will have to forsake your entire family for the one you truly love. You will have to start a new life in a new place where your life will not be in danger. I am a male, white Christian. I have often thought of the relationships that can form between nationals. However, we have a saying in the states "You cannot fence time", love is love, true love requires true comittment. But love is truer, when it is lived out and alive. please do not die for this love, that love would be in vein. I wish you all the best, and only wish I could help more. your friend, Mike "
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Reply #2 - 10/03/09  1:00am
" For me...if you could...I would want to go to therapy. I do go to therapy becuase I have bipolar disorder but we talk about a loooooot of things. I SO VERY MUCH hope that you will find some kind of peace and things work out for you. "

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