As I told you in last week’s installment of “A Life of Love” – in preparation for our wedding, Feyma and I had to attend a couple of pre-marriage seminars. There were two required seminars. First was a seminar that was required by the Philippine Government, it was focused on birth control. Apparently, this kind […]
Relationships
A Life of Love: The Prep
OK, so Papa’s permission for the wedding was firmly in place, so the wedding was on. Feyma had already said yes to my proposal before “The Talk” with Papa, with the only caveat being that I had to secure the permission of her father. In the Philippines, if you want to marry, you have to […]
A life of love. The peering eyes
When I left off on my last article of this series, we had just arrived in General Santos City, Mindanao. We were heading to Feyma’s family home in Barangay Lagao. Traveling a dirt highway on the back of a flatbed truck. It was a little bit of a different experience than I was used to […]
Getting interested in the Philippines
After marrying Feyma, I remained interested in the Philippines, but really only as a visitor. I never even considered moving to and living in, the Philippines. It all changed, though, just a few years later. That was about the time when I started getting interested in online things. The Internet really was not popular yet, […]
