Months back I had written a feature article about relationships in the school magazine, and I mentioned how the words “true love” and “happily ever after” belong in fairy tales and not real life. My point was that the stark reality was the opposite of these tales of perfect romance and that even time itself gave no guarantee- calling to mind my parent’s 27 years of togetherness, which one day crumbled and ended up in separation.
Their old wedding album had been in storage for decades, and the dampness had caused the edges of some photos to fade and blot, others were completely ruined. I bought a large new album where I can transfer these rare mementos which included a virtual diorama of our childhood and the evolution of our family.
I tried to imagine what their life must have been like as a young couple. Their wedding was simple- a small ceremony at the local church in Abuyog, with just family and friends. My mom wore her hair upswept in braids, with flowers that decorated her veil. She looked radiant in her 70′s style wedding dress,and layers upon layers of chiffon concealed her pregnancy (I was a six month old fetus she carried in her belly when she walked down the aisle). My father wore long sleeved Barong Tagalog with what suspiciously looks like bell-bottom pants to me, this was September 1980 so I guess that explains it. If I were to describe how they looked together in scenes during the ceremony, in the bridal car side by side, and at the reception- they were happy. Wait, I don’t think that would give justice to the look I saw on their faces. Giddy, ecstatic, madly in love- yes, that’s much closer.
Through the years they went swiftly from merely husband and wife to Papa and Mama, with me and my chubby baby brothers ever beside them in photos. Like typical Pinoy families, my father one day left to work abroad to support us. And now there were two sets of photos- the ones at our humble rented house with a very thin-looking Mama, and Papa’s photos against the backdrop of the Arabian deserts.
I was of course aware of those relationship ups and downs they had, after all that’s typical of every married couple. It’s just that as me and my brothers grew up to become young adults and gain independence, their parenting roles which help bound them together seemed slowly dissipating along with their affection for each other. Looking back, even though our parents began to have problems and live in separate houses in the States, I am glad they never actually made the move to get an annulment or a divorce. They made a promise before God, after all, for better or for worse. And even though it still saddens me how the ending of my favorite love story turned out, my father was there during my mom’s last hours.
As I put the last photograph in place, I had this lump on my throat that I could not swallow. I guess I take it back then, looking at my parent’s wedding photo, it was a shining example of nothing less than TRUE LOVE.
Article wrote by: Thadie MD
Link source: http://definitelyfilipino.com/blog/2012/03/04/a-second-look-at-an-imperfect-marriage/
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Filipina Woman for Marriage From The Philippines
If you are looking to meet a Filipina woman for marriage, then you should know that marriage is a very serious thing with Filipina women, especially for Filipina women who grew up in the Philippines. There is no divorce in the Philippines, so people get married there seriously.
It is easy to meet Filipina women online. You can now join Filipino online dating sites and start communicating with members. If you are eager to meet Filipina women from the Philippines only, then you have the option to do so. Usually, they are the ones interested to meet a guy like you looking for a serious relationship leading to marriage.
So, how do you find the Filipina woman who will be your Filipina bride?
First, know what are your interests. Does it matter to you if she has the same interests with you or no? Do you have a college education, and do you want her to be college educated too?
After you figure out the most important things to you, then show it in your profile. Indicate your hobbies and interests. Write down your college degree. Specify your religious beliefs. You will discover that these things matter a lot to a Filipina girl. It will also help you choose the right Filipina woman to marry.
Your online dating profile will attract and gain interests from Filipina girls who are college educated, have the same religious beliefs as you, and shares your hobbies and interests.
Many Filipina women in the Philippines are college educated. Every family works hard to get everyone finished a college education. English is widely spoken and is the official language in most schools and institutions. If you can speak English, then you will be able to converse with anyone.
A Filipina woman who is college educated will most probably want to marry a guy who has a college education and a job. She will also be more serious in her relationship with you. She will ask you to visit her in the Philippines and meet her family. This is a good sign that she is genuine. If she invites you to meet her parents, then she is really serious with you!
Be prepared though, once you are in the Philippines, you will meet not only her parents but other family members and probably the whole neighborhood as well. You will be welcomed with a warm hospitality. Surely, you will enjoy your stay in the Philippines, so make the most of it! You will even wish that you could extend your stay for a few more weeks than planned.
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It is easy to meet Filipina women online. You can now join Filipino online dating sites and start communicating with members. If you are eager to meet Filipina women from the Philippines only, then you have the option to do so. Usually, they are the ones interested to meet a guy like you looking for a serious relationship leading to marriage.
So, how do you find the Filipina woman who will be your Filipina bride?
First, know what are your interests. Does it matter to you if she has the same interests with you or no? Do you have a college education, and do you want her to be college educated too?
After you figure out the most important things to you, then show it in your profile. Indicate your hobbies and interests. Write down your college degree. Specify your religious beliefs. You will discover that these things matter a lot to a Filipina girl. It will also help you choose the right Filipina woman to marry.
Your online dating profile will attract and gain interests from Filipina girls who are college educated, have the same religious beliefs as you, and shares your hobbies and interests.
Many Filipina women in the Philippines are college educated. Every family works hard to get everyone finished a college education. English is widely spoken and is the official language in most schools and institutions. If you can speak English, then you will be able to converse with anyone.
A Filipina woman who is college educated will most probably want to marry a guy who has a college education and a job. She will also be more serious in her relationship with you. She will ask you to visit her in the Philippines and meet her family. This is a good sign that she is genuine. If she invites you to meet her parents, then she is really serious with you!
Be prepared though, once you are in the Philippines, you will meet not only her parents but other family members and probably the whole neighborhood as well. You will be welcomed with a warm hospitality. Surely, you will enjoy your stay in the Philippines, so make the most of it! You will even wish that you could extend your stay for a few more weeks than planned.
Find your Filipina bride now. Search dating sites at Sweetest Hearts. More Filipina dating articles: http://filipinakisses.blogspot.com
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Saturday 24 October 2009
Win the Filipina Heart of a Philippine Girl for Life
Philippine Girl are popular for their exotic beauty and warm smiles. There are many beautiful Filipinas who are internationally famous. Philippine girls are not only beautiful, but they are also charming and cheerful. The Filipina heart is often sincere and faithful in her relationships.Philippine girls always respect her elders. Most of the time, she will seek approval from her parents before she can accept any suitor to court her. Filipina women in the Philippines live with her parents for as long as she is still unmarried no matter how old she is.To win her Filipina heart you should be really willing to visit her family and introduce yourself formally to her parents. It is disrespectful if a man courts a Filipina girl without informing her parents! In the Philippines, you should know that it is always expected that the man must show his face to the Filipina girl's family or else her whole family will not approve of you!
Many Filipina women have a heart of gold. They are also very sweet, loving, romantic, loyal and really faithful to the man they love. So, if you want to marry a Filipina lady, you should focus to win her Filipina heart, and you can have a faithful and loving beautiful Filipina girlfriend. However, you have to be really patient in your courtship and really sincere in your intentions so you will win the love of her Filipina heart and make her your Philippine bride.
It is often thought that having a serious relationship is a stepping stone to marriage. Therefore, a boyfriend must meet all the requirements of the family before he can marry a Philippine girl. The Filipina girl is also expected to guard herself and to be very strong and do not surrender to temptations so she can be pure for her future husband. It is also because most Filipino men in the Philippines usually are not willing to marry a Filipina girl who is not pure anymore. Her family will also feel ashamed of her disgrace. That is why for Philippine girls, a relationship is taken very seriously and marriage is a lifetime commitment.
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Featured Pinay: Matz08 From Muntinlupa City
29 year old Woman in muntinlupa, National Capital Region, PhilippinesLooking For: Men or Women for a friend or casual dating
Profile for matz08
i want to meet sincere and nice people to hang out with during my idle time...i am open in dating but not meeting people only for the purpose of s*x..friendship and casual dating is better..
My Ideal Person:
I'm looking for someone who wastes no time in developing a relationship..a person whom i can talk to and laugh my a** out with without noticing the how much time was spent talking to and/or hanging out with him/her..
matz08's Information:
Gender: Woman
Birthdate: August 1, 1980
(29 years old)
Lives in:
muntinlupa, National Capital Region, Philippines
(10755 km from you)
Relocate?: Prefer not to say
Height: 5 ft 0 in / 152-154 cm
Body Type: Average
Smoking: I'm a light/social smoker
Drinking: I'm a light/social drinker
Race: Asian
Speaks: English, Tagalog
Education: BA/BS (4 years college)
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: employee
Interests:
Religion: Catholic
Have Children: Prefer not to say
Want Children: Prefer not to say
Hair Color: Black
Hair Length : Short
Eye Color : Brown
Saturday 14 February 2009
Featured Filipina: BellyDance
28 year old Woman in los angeles, California, United States Looking For: Men or Women for a friend or casual dating
Profile of Bellydance:
Hi, I am fun, easy going, funny and adventurous. LOL atleast I think so hihihihi. Ok! so .... I do enjoy dating, and goin out, you know the simple things. I'm into anything basically as I'm also a thrill seeker.
I like to laugh alot. I am also a good person. I treat a man with respect, the same way I also like to be treated. I have remained to be faithful and I also expect the same from my partner. I'm very sincere and when I fall inlove I love deeply. I'm an intense person and I want a relationship filled with passion. I also have a healthy sense of humor and I enjoy laughing HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Right now I'm interested in dating, nothing serious I just want to do something on a Saturday night. I'd like to do anything/everything, as long as I'm in a good company, whatever you want to do I'll come with you, but you also have to come with me
I like swimming and tennis but would like to try snowboarding, wall climbing, skydiving and travelling.
My Ideal Person:
I am just here to have fun and hopefully meet some friends who share the same interests as I do.
| Gender: | Woman |
| Birthdate: | January 10, 1981 (28 years old) |
| Lives in: | los angeles, California, United States |
| Height: | 5 ft 3 in / 160-162 cm |
| Body Type: | Average |
| Smoking: | I'm a non-smoker |
| Drinking: | I'm a light/social drinker |
| Race: | Asian |
| Speaks: | English |
| Education: | BA/BS (4 years college) |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Occupation: | QA |
| Religion: | Protestant |
| Have Children: | No |
| Want Children: | Yes |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Hair Length : | Long |
| Eye Color : | Black |
| Glasses or Contacts : | None |
Saturday 7 February 2009
Kindhearted Pinay "Lovely_pinay143"
20 year old Woman in cebu city, Central Visayas, PhilippinesLooking For: Men for a friend, casual dating, a serious relationship or marriage.
My Profile: Hi there! Im Myrna,I am from cebu I am an easy-going kind-hearted pinay lady,I live to enjoy life to the fullest, in order to contain this i have to be happy in everything that i do..
Im a lively person, spirited and care free, as i characterized! i love hanging out with my friend's, love ones family and who ever i am close with!Doin some exciting stuff like spending my free time by watching movie ,reading romance pocket book and also listening music and some other things just everything to enjoy life!
My friends compliment me that im so friendly and so sweet that i really like to laugh a lot and im so fun to be with.Yet can also be serious sometimes if need too..
And in times i want to get serious, i always dreaming and imagining what my future like,. what would my life be in the near future.?.
I would love to travel in different places
and get connected to the beauty of nature(especiallybeaches!)I Love to get relax and have fun with whom I Love when I Like todestressed and most of all to have a good family someday where i can be an excellent wife and mommy! =) thanks for dropin by and reading my profile!
My Ideal Person:
I prefer talking to a man who is mature enough who has no bad hobbies and ofcourse someone who likes to laugh a lot is very important and i also like to meet someone who loves to share funny,serious conversation with me.A stable man who knows what he wants in life, honest,caring ,open minded, understanding,kind hearted and ofcourse someone who can handle me at my best same way at my worst!
P.S. he should love family and kids!
no rudes please?
better if you also have photo, I got mine!
Favorite films: horror , funny stuff
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Friday 6 February 2009
Find a Filipina Bride From the Philippines Through Online Dating
By Filipina KissesTo find the right kind of Filipina bride to be interested in your online dating profile, and to get her to reply to your instant messages and emails, then make sure that your
picture in your profile can do the first step for you. That is, your picture should be good, clear, recent and showing you in decent clothes and with a warm smile on your face.
Filipina women may not too picky, but they would prefer a guy to be decent and nice. So, you should project that in your dating profile. Post a picture of you that has a shirt on. Never post a picture of you with no shirt on, you will only offend many Filipina girls and you will have one or two replies, or none at all. To attract a much better response, post a picture of you in casual clothes. You should not be too formal and not too informal either. It is important also that you have a nice warm smile in your picture. It will show that you are easy to get along with and is a nice person.
Indicate the hobbies that you love most. Share what you like most in your hobbies. You can also state most things that interests you. A Filipina bride who will read your profile will be more interested to know more about you as a person. If you like the beach, then you share that interest with many Filipinas. The Philippines has about 7,100 islands, thus, there is too many beautiful beaches to go to.
Is education important to you? If you have an education, write down in your profile. Many Filipina girls are college educated, and has a college degree to prove it. Education will be very important to her, and you will find that she will be interested in your educational attainments too.
Religion is also a serious matter with Filipina girls. Many Filipina women grew up to be Catholic or Christian in faith. Show in your profile that you have your own religious beliefs and whether it is the same as hers or not, she can decide to proceed communicating with you or not. At least you are open about yourself.
Your Filipina bride can speak and understand English, so you will have no problem with communication. Unless, if she is not college educated and she has only reached grade school level in her education, then it will not be too easy communicating with her since her knowledge of English will be a bit limited.
But, don't worry, many Filipina women who are members in online dating sites have at least a high school education. If they are able to use the internet and can communicate with you in English then she is educated.
Most Filipina women who are college educated and have a college degree will also prefer to meet a man who has a college education and who has a secure job. Be very specific in what kind of Filipina bride you are searching for and if you want her to share your hobbies and interests.
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