- Joined
- Sep 20, 2016
My understanding is that as long as Salah is a married man, and doesn't create any trouble with other residents in the building, he can remain in a "family" building, even without Chantal being there. "I'm still married; my wife has gone back to Canada on an extended visit, but she will return," is enough to keep him there.Isn't the apartment they have for a family? They said that right.. so.. shouldn't that mean that Salah has to leave and find his own place?
Were he to divorce her, without a second wife already lined up and ready to move in, he'd have to move back into bachelor housing, which isn't so nice, especially for a Syrian with shaky residency status and no career. The place he was living in when Chantal first arrived was the human equivalent of the hamster's too-small cage.
Being married to Chantal has not only given him the financial means to live in a better apartment, but it's also boosted his social status within Kuwaiti society and given him the right to live in a better apartment in the first place. Even if she can't get him into Canada, marriage to Chantal has greatly improved his standard of living in Kuwait, and even if he now has to get a job to pay for the luxury seaside fartbox, it's still worth it to him to remain married to her as long as he possibly can.