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Jen_USA · Joined: 02 Jan 2010 Posts: 7

So there can be no boyfriends at all for me if I go to the UAE?????

helenl · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1202

Only if you register you have a boyfriend with the police Rolling Eyes

Many people have regular relationships, just don't be blatent with PDAs or offending neighbours who might report you.

homeless vet · Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 80

Having spent some time in actual "shari'a-land," I would agree that the UAE is better, but not nearly as civilized, particularly if you're a woman, as Dubai pretends to be. You've got to think both defensively and proactively. For example, as a married Western woman, I won't go to a bar without my husband. Why? It makes you a target. The thinking would be: Any married woman who goes out uncovered and without her husband, at night, to a hotel and enters its bar alone is a *beep* who would gladly have sex with a stranger(s).

homeless vet · Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 80

Iamherebecause · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:57 am Post subject:

People break these rules all the time... but you *do* need to be discreet. Particularly take care not to blab about what you did over the weekend in the workplace in the hearing of people who could take offence or who might have it in for you (and who knows who they are?).

I know of people fired supposedly because of gay relationships but none fired specifically because of breaking the premarital rule.

Muslim women do not take their husband's family name on marriage; so hotel reception staff are unlikely to quiz couples whose names are different.

Bars? Homeless vet, you seem to be in AL Ain, why not try Ladies Night at the H&J ...

homeless vet · Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 80

Iamherebecause · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:14 am Post subject:

H&J = Horse and Jockey at the Intercon. Don't go often myself but plenty of UAEU/HCT people do go in term time.

Now, ain't it funny that a Rugby Club, which in the UK would be likely to be a bastion of macho nonsense and testosterone, is the most unaccompanied-female-friendly place in AL Ain

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Come come, they never bother westerners in terms of dating...it's not Saudi Arabia--as long as they avoid too much PDA...

usa_in_gulf · Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 133 Location: Gulf

veralynn · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 113 Location: Abu Dhabi

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

During five years in Dubai we were never asked for any marriage proof.

veralynn · Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 113 Location: Abu Dhabi

MrScaramanga · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 221

MrScaramanga · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 221