?? regarding American Catholic female wishing to marry Moroccan man.

Submitted by Linda (United States), Apr 20, 2017 at 20:33

I have a friend (no, really!) who is totally smitten with a Moroccan guy she met on FB..where else. He has sent (shown via IM/FaceTime chats) his various documentation as to his education, employment, and zillions of pictures. He also has about 100 female 'friends' on his list. He has sent pictures of his family, his sister married living in US, but cannot qualify for a VISA to come see her? She says she totally trusts him even though I've cautioned her to be wary she is not. He found her, as they do, on a FB page but she doesn't know which one.

Anyway, my question is this, if she should be able to get herself engaged to this man...who is 27 years younger and divorced?...how would she be accepted into Moroccan life? Would she, especially as a Catholic, be less welcomed? I read the above post which I found very informative but wouldn't dare send it to her as she would be highly offended that I dared to poke my nose into her business. At this time she is connected to him 24/7 and is hopelessly in love. I don't have a real good feeling about this, although from looking at his page I don't see anything real 'sinister'. Just the fact that there are no photos of him with anyone, no family pics, no friend pics, just him and whoever is taking all these pics. He also just posts the same ones over and over, changing his profile picture every other month or so, back to one he's used before several years ago.

So guess I'm just asking for some input or information. Thanks for your time.

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