Two of my friends fell in love and decided to be together.
Two months into their relationship, he proposed.

I knew my guy friend to be open-minded.
However, he started asking my other friend, his fiancee, not to hang out or talk with other guys.
He could still do whatever he wanted, though.

She called me sometime before their wedding and told me that she really needed to see me.
We met up. She told me that he made a very strange request of her:
"Could you come with me and my mom on a quick visit to the gynecologist?"
He wanted her to take a virginity test.

Me: “Are you serious? Are you taking your mom with you?”
Her: “No, I won't tell her.”
Me: “You're just going to go?”
Her: “Yeah, what's wrong with that? I'm going to be his wife, no?”
Me: “Are you asking for my opinion or are you just telling me?”
Her: “Both”.
Me: “If you're asking for my opinion, then end this relationship now. He doesn’t trust you. How could he ask you to do such a thing?”

I asked her to tell her mother, because I thought that she, naturally, would object to this.
But when she called me again, she told me that her mother had said, "What's wrong with that? I'm coming with you!"
Her mother called me later and said, "Listen, don't put ideas in my daughter's head. She listens to you, and she'll do what you suggest".
I didn’t say anything.

That same night, around 11 pm, someone rang the doorbell. It was my friend.
"Tell me what to do. We're going to the doctor tomorrow morning."
I repeated the advice I had given her earlier: "Return his gifts. Tell him it’s over because he doesn’t trust you.
If he is acting this way now, your relationship will be over within a year”.

Her mother later called my mother around 2 am:
"Please keep your daughter away from mine.
She’s putting ideas in her head. My daughter is getting married. If you don't want your daughter to get married, that’s your decision. Keep her by your side forever, for all I care.
Your daughter's been going to college for three years now, and she still hasn’t managed to find a potential husband!”

Some parents believe that colleges are only good for finding potential suitors.
The next day my friend came over to show me the results of her virginity test. "Thank God!" she exclaimed.
"Are you crazy?” I asked. “Thank God for what? How could you have doubted yourself?"
"I mean, thank God, he believes me now".

They got married. I couldn't go to the wedding. I heard later that they started having marital problems about a month after the wedding."
I bumped into her a year later. After exchanging hellos, she told me she had a son named Omar.
“He's a year old, but I'm living at my father’s now because I got a divorce”.