Sux in the city....

Listening to my friends tales and spending hours having "Sex and the city" type conversations with the girls (hence the title and no its not a typo) I have come to a realization. Egyptian men cheat. I know a lot of you will say but all men cheat, but Egyptian men do it to a scale that actually makes me laugh with disbelief.. One of the girls I know is with a married guy (warning signs already I know) but they somehow have a normal relationship, well they did until she recently found out that he is  sneaking around going to events where he meets foreign women and trying his very best to contact any foreign girl he can. His reasoning when found out? Ahhh nothing happened, they were all fat and ugly. wow so she got lucky, but what if they were cute? So he pushed her to the point where she finally said, you are dead for me and it is over, and I was so proud of her, but then what did he do? He turned into a charmer, showed up at her place with a sign saying how stupid he was, brought flowers, begged for another chance, did everything he could to make her crack and back down, he became her dream guy for a few days and the entire time with a face like the cat who has got the cream. When he is secure in the knowledge that he has got her back he will return to his old self and she will be banging her head against the wall again.

Another guy who she works with spent years living in Europe, so one would assume he is more in touch with what is acceptable and what is not. He got together with another girl from work, a sweet Egyptian who was very much in love with him and willing to give up her own plans to be with him, the second he knew she was his he became bored and started to text the foreign girls he worked with telling them how into them he was...... Another girl I know is totally in love with a guy, they have been together for almost 3 years and all this guy wants to do is change her, she tries and tries to change but of course isn't able to change her entire existence so he tells her he will cheat, and her not changing is the same as him cheating, and the times he has cheated in the past are all her fault (!!!!). Another friend of mine is pregnant and of course married to an Egyptian, her husband didn't physically cheat but did go to the movies with another girl behind her back and spent time at the pool with her, one of his arguments for that was that he felt trapped because she always suspected him.  The same thing happened with all of these girls, they became angry, tried to end things and show that this was not behavior they would tolerate, their boys began to act perfect for a few days, if they were lucky weeks, they reeled them back in and then continued to act in exactly the same way.
Even my taxi driver.... the guy has a wife and kids and an English girlfriend on the side, he talks to the girlfriend on the phone in front of the wife and its obvious that the wife knows exactly what he is doing and who he is talking to, and you can see on her face that it hurts her (she traveled with us once).

But why is it that the men are so unable to stay monogamous? Well i think that part of it is society, its considered normal to have a women on the side here, they witness their fathers doing it without shame and on almost every TV show the guys have a mistress, to put it simple they believe it is their god given right to have a women on the side and actually get annoyed if their wives make it too complicated for them by checking up on them. Conclusion? Not really a conclusion but a warning maybe... if you are going to be with an Egyptian guy you should probably face up to the fact that he will cheat on you at some point, I know of a couple who haven't so far and I live in hope that they wont so I can be proved wrong, but honestly 95percent of the men I know or know of are cheating on their partners.
Yeah for us girls it truly sux in the city.