As Carré mentioned on the first page, this is fiction though. It's an excerpt from a book so I don't know why people think it's a real story.
Its not fiction friend. From the website:
This is part three of a series on true stories of some Somalis in America and their relationships. The series is part of a book the writer is finishing titled, “Courtship and Marriage: The Somali Experience in America.” The author has interviewed three dozen people whose names and locations have been changed for privacy reasons. Each person tells his or her own story.
The problem with people in this thread is that they haven't read the other accounts and stories told on the website and base their total judgement on this entire book based on this one story that they didn't like or resonate with them. If
@Shamis had posted the first account, which was about a young couple in their early 20s who had been courting for 3 years. The dude had gotten tired of this and had gone to sleep with other women, leaving the woman he had courted for 3 years away. The story later spirals down with the woman meeting another man and getting happily married, while the young man had gotten another woman pregnant and had many other issues to deal with. The young man had even approached the woman even though she was already married, and asked if he could have an affair with her.
Imagine the reaction if
@Shamis had posted that story?
See any flaws here, or is it just me?
I find these stories very interesting. The differences on how romantic relationships work back home and in the diaspora is what these interviews are trying to convey. Most of the people in the interview are from the diaspora, and trying to integrate into this new society and have the romantic relationships in the west like how they wanted back home, would bring problems of their own.
So instead of fighting about whether the young lady was MJ or not, or whether these stories are real or not, how about we look at what these stories are really trying to tell us instead?