Happy stories of American women +Moroccan husbands

[tany1157 161]

Hubby and I are both middle children Wonder what that says about us??

[Mithra 1,185]

Nice stories, ladies. Realistic and honest.

[kristen_maroc 126]

Thanks for sharing, everyone.

[kristen_maroc 126]

Did you do direct consular filing? Seems like you've been living in Morocco for 4 years, and would qualify for DCF. I think those cases usually go more quickly than others.

Nope, you can only do that if you are married. My family would kill me if I got married in Morocco. For some strange reason, this seems to be the best way for us, even if it will take longer.

[msheesha 548]

Nope, you can only do that if you are married. My family would kill me if I got married in Morocco. For some strange reason, this seems to be the best way for us, even if it will take longer.

Oops. Sorry, didn't realize it was only for married peeps.

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

Sorry for butting in to the MENA boards, but this post was on popular topics. Its nice to hear the happy stories. Those of you still new to the whole process...PLEASE don't let others' experiences get you down. Hang in there...it will be worth it in the end!!!!! Soon we'll all be reading about your happy endings .

[Muh and me 18]

I think no matter what you've gone thru with the visa process and being apart, some people are just not meant to be together. I had a rude awakening that way because there were alot of differences, but it didn't help that he filed for divorce one month after getting his 10 yr green card!

Good luck to those goin thru the process now. If I had not gone thru this process I would not have done several things that I have been able to do. One of them is seeing a beautiful country and meet a wonderful second family. The second, is finding Islam. And the last is finding a wonderful man whom I beleive will be my partner for life!

[Nasturtium 500]

Yay for nice stories

I think some of the low response may also be because it was limited to one country (and personality). Even though there are a lot of Vjers registered, only a small amount ever actually participate

[sachinky 464]

If I were to be honest, I wouldn't count a couple as a 'success story' unless the beneficiary has stuck around for at least a year or so after acquiring USC. So, that'd be like 4-5 years.

I teach kindergarten and one of the moms there is married to a very nice Morrocan man who sometimes subs as the PE teacher. She was his physical therapist when they met and they have been married for about ten years and have three kids together (the youngest one's in my class). I think they even moved to Morocco for a while to take care of his mom. So there you go.

Edited March 2, 2011 by sachinky

[Kenza 1]

Been together 6 years, married for 2 and he ain't goin nowhere! Lol

[msheesha 548]

If I were to be honest, I wouldn't count a couple as a 'success story' unless the beneficiary has stuck around for at least a year or so after acquiring USC. So, that'd be like 4-5 years.

I teach kindergarten and one of the moms there is married to a very nice Morrocan man who sometimes subs as the PE teacher. She was his physical therapist when they met and they have been married for about ten years and have three kids together (the youngest one's in my class). I think they even moved to Morocco for a while to take care of his mom. So there you go.

I think some people are waiting to tell their success story until they've hit that time mark you mentioned.

[Crossed_fingers 128]

If I were to be honest, I wouldn't count a couple as a 'success story' unless the beneficiary has stuck around for at least a year or so after acquiring USC. So, that'd be like 4-5 years.

Agreed, and I'd add in something about the beneficiary's financial stability. If the beneficiary is waiting to finish college on the USC's dime, papers may be not be the only thing the beneficiary is getting out of the relationship. That's me being cynical, though.

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

I know my husband isnt Moroccan-he's Egyptian but this July we will be married for 5 yrs. This Oct we will have known each other for 6. We live a mile from my mom and very close to most my family. Anywhere from a mile, to 15 minutes to grandparents, to 20 minutes to my sister, to 1hr from another one, to 5 hours from 3 brothers in Louisiana and their family.

With the exception of work since we have crazy schedules, we do almost everything in life together and have alot of fun together pretty much daily. We make up words that only we know what they mean so when we want to say them to each other in front of my family -we both smile at each other and know our secret words. Or even if we are just sitting next to each other reading, I look at him and bat my eyes. When he plays arabic music in the house I try to dance even though I am honestly not a dancer at all! Sometimes I start rattling off every arabic word I know and it will totally lighten up the mood if hes stressed about something. Our usual bad situations are more like "attitudes about things"

However, we have our crazy stressed out moments but honestly our good days by far outweigh the bad ones.

[hala_amira 1]

I guess I should post, the more the better. My Moroccan husband and I just had our 10 year anniversary from when we started dating/met last month. We will have our 5 year marriage anniversary next month. We have a 7 year old daughter and have been through a lot together. We had and still have family issues regarding our relationship which made us even stronger over the years. We again had our differences culturally that others have mentioned, but again you work at it. My husband just got his US citizenship this past August, and he is not filing for divorce yet! I guess I pass!lol We will be going to visit his family in Morocco for the first time together. I believe that this journey to Morocco will bring out a side of my husband that he has not yet been able to share with me in our 10 years together! It will be a new beginging in our marriage!! My husband still amazes me as we still grow in learning about each other.I think no matter how long you have been married,you can always learn something new from your spouse!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

We met online 11 years ago, married for 6 years, living together for 3, 10 year green card, USC coming up soon, insha'allah. He's 21 years younger, not a college grad, and I have a Ph.D, but we match well. It's nice having someone around that I don't have to debate with Like I do at work

So far, it's been as smooth as silk, but I don't really like saying that because it does sound like bragging, and that can come back to bite you. We're both born Muslim, both Arabic and French speakers, both Arab, my Palestinian family immigrated from Morocco, and I've lived there on and off since childhood, so those similarities probably work in our favor. We're also both movie fans, love to travel, chill and eat lol. All the stuff that makes a marriage great