Tag #125394 - Interview #97653 (Rebeka Evgin)

My son, when he was a tourist guide was changing girlfriends frequently.  Just like captains who find a lover at every port, tourist guides return with a different girlfriend from every trip they take.  This situation worried me of course.  My uncle’s granddaughter Rachel was a beautiful girl, she had come to Istanbul from Adana, and did not  have much of a social circle.  She and my son met.  This was a type of matchmaking [proposition—families deciding first and the children marrying in a short time].  But my son went out with Rachel for a while after meeting her, they did not decide within three days like in the old times.  They got to know each other and fell in love.

They had a happy life.  Rachel could have been a working woman, preschool teacher was an ideal career for a woman.  But my son did not budge from the principle “I will not allow my wife to work” even though he was an open-minded person.  His wife became a good homemaker.