Sometimes I feel so alone here in Egypt especially at night or weekends. You hear your neighbors all around you laughing or yelling at their roommates (family or friends), as you sit alone in your flat. Your only companion is your phone and a MBC2 film playing in the background (just to have some noise).
Even if you are married, you have your Egyptian hubby but they go out frolicking around town with their many invites from friends.
Many Egyptian husbands have jobs from afar and cannot be with their families but on the weekends. This is when I feel most alone. I don't mind being alone most of the time. Especially, when I have a job. A teaching job, I am usually exhausted. When I get home, I just want to sleep. So, taking care of another has no appeal whatsoever.
However, those days when I was a single expat, there were too many lonely times. I would have loved to come home and talk (or more like) complain about my day to my other half. I haven't had the opportunity to do that, yet. I am married now and when I worked, I lived apart from my new husband.
I did not have the pleasure of coming home after a long day of working with screaming toddlers all day, to find an loving ear.
My new husband is always good about listening to my woes but its from afar on video chat. You know its a big difference; video chat verses receiving a physical connection. So, I am lonely sometimes, even as a married expat, in this great big city of 40 Million. Missing my friends of 2 years from a city by the sea.
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