First, age difference matters. No dad would want his 18 year old daughter to marry someone old enough to be her father, even though it is not against the religion since they are both adult. In Islam, man and woman cannot see each other without the relatives of the woman with them. That is the golden rule. Because they are not married so they can only know each other with the relatives of women along with them before they marry. They will all be together during that moment. This rule exist in conservative families in Turkey. Asides from that girls date boys by hiding it from their dads in conservative families A friend of mine had had a girlfriend for 5 years maybe. But the father of the girl never knew about it. They kept it secret. Then she left him after long years suddenly and found somebody else but the father still did not know. If father knew, it would not be good for her.
I don't have kids, but I would not be happy. I'd probably do the dad thing and try to talk her out of it.
My step-daughter is something of a courtesan; her lover is married, twice her age, and a multimillionaire. They've been together for 11-12 years now and he treats her like gold. She's a grown-up and thoroughly enjoys living her life; she lives in a $3.5 million house as big as a hotel and wants for nothing; particularly in the self-esteem department. Am I really supposed to preach "the American Dream"; the godly virtue of being a good citizen and prostituting yourself for a starvation wage, working yourself to death as a wage slave to some ass-grabbing cretin you loathe in a meaningless precarious dead-end job that you hate? Nah; I don't think so either.
This can in itself become a major problem; In her teenage years, our daughter had a friend from a strictly Islam part of India and it caused major problems. She was allowed to visit us, but her parents insisted that Jane always drove her home (they did not own a car) She was paranoid about the time and one evening when the film that she was watching with Christina ended at 10pm, she had to miss the end and leave at 9.55 to meet her deadline, in order to avoid being locked in hr room for a week. She was horrified when I suggested she rang hr father to say that she would be 5 minutes late, telling us that if she spoke to her father before he spoke to her, she would be in her room for 2 weeks. Her mother was also not allowed to leave the house on her own or answer the telephone. All this went on to cause a serious problem when she went on to secretly buy some western clothing, but wanted Christine to keep it at our house so that she could change when they went out, We were shocked when we saw her choice of clothing that included cheap high heeled boots, a low top and skirt that hardly covered her ass, things that Christina would not have been seen dead wearing. After a few nights out, she got the hang of what she mistaking saw as London life and started drinking, then kissing every boy in sight. Christina ended up having to lie to her, saying that she was unable to go out in order to avoid a repeat performance. Their friendship soon ended. Young people brought up without parental support will always have problems. Although you probably wont admit it, I feel that it may have partly led to your current situation. PS, fairly heavy snow in London this morning.
I just missed the minus 30 leaving early from Eastern Turkey because of the corona lockdown in weekends. Weather got colder just the day I left. The day before, my thermometer showed -25c but that was a warmer day there. I missed the minus 30 this winter sadly. I still think about it since I came home. What kind of unluckness is that? I won't be typing on weather topic for a long time because this thing will be eating me for a long time. Therefore I don't wanna talk about weather for a very, very, very long time. I stayed 3 nights and came back home. I would have stayed one more night if there wasn't corona lockdown because staying one more night would mean 3 more nights because this stupid corona lockdowns that take places in weekends.
I never knew that Turkey was that cold, my knowledge of geography is terrible. For many years, because the people were black, I just assumed that Jamaica was a town in Africa I had never heard of covid weekend restrictions, but they make sense. Slowing the spread of the virus will keep hospital beds available for people who need them to save their life. Perhaps the worse thing about the covid situation that people do not realise, is that once the hospitals are busy treating patients (most of who do not require treatment), other seriously ill patients are being delayed until it is too late.
I do not blame the religion itself. It is the men that it turns into lazy bullies, thinking that it is easier to keep their wives in the house as personal slaves and their daughters locked in their bedroom, rather than helping and supporting them.
Eastern Turkey is very high elevated. This is the closest place to me with available long term average data. Ardahan - Wikipedia Where I stayed is higher elevated and colder than this place but long term average data is not available.
In 1948, the dream was worth dreaming. Then a succession of greedy capitalist presidents destroyed it all.
Looking for a girlfriend is the guaranteed way not to find one. When girls are around, ignore the fact that they are female and just chat to them about music and your other interests. After a few WEEKS, not minutes, the girl will start to see the REAL you and things will move on from there. It may take a few years before you find the girl who is right to spend your life with. In my younger days, their were always girls wearing short skirts at parties, but I largely ignored them. I still remember the somewhat drunk girl who asked me what I would do if she took her shirt off, needless to say, I replied that I would probably not notice. Girls like that may give you a few hours of physical pleasure, but they will never make you happy and contented in the long run.