On my last installment of “A Life of Love” I talked about the visa process – getting a visa for Feyma to come and live in the United States. It took around 4 months, a relatively short time in the scheme of things, although it felt like a decade! On January 6, 1991, Feyma landed […]
Relationships
A Life of Love: The Visa Process
So, as I described in the previous article, I had arrived home from the Philippines, so now it was time to start the process of getting a US Visa for my wife so she could come and join me in the United States. Back at that time (1990) the process was relatively short, about 4 […]
A Life of Love: Arriving Home
So, at the end of my last article in the “Life of Love” series, I had just left the airport in Manila. Feyma, my new bride, was left behind, so that I could go home and apply for her visa to go to the United States so that we could live together. It was quite […]
A Life of Love: The Wedding and beyond
So, it has been a while sine I added to this series, sorry for the delay! When I left off last time, Feyma and I had attended the City Health Seminar and the Church Seminar, both of which were required for us to be married. Today, we will look at the wedding, and our time […]
A Life of Love: The Questioning
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 […]
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 […]
