In love with a Turkish Man

Submitted by Disappointeed (United States), Jun 28, 2010 at 15:34

About 3 months ago I moved to a new area and started a new job. At this job I fell head over heals for a Turkish man. I am an American/German who spent half of my life in Germany and had Turkish friends. He just moved to the USA so his English is still bad. We hit it off directly. We had no problems until I ended up pregnant by accident. Technically I am infertile and not able to have children but it happened. He flipped out and directly said I need to get an abortion. That his family will kill him. No matter what I said; including I asked if coverting to Muslim would change anything he will not listen and has broken off the relationship. He now says I had it all planed and I am a user & a people hunter. I am 36 years old and this may be the last child I would ever be able to have. I am not sure what to do. I love him so much but am not going to kill our child. Also he is unsure if he is even going to stay here, move to NYC or back to Turkey so he would be leaving me anyways.

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