My Life of Love series continues! Last week, I told you about the rather shocking questions I got at the Government Seminar which was required for marriage. I sure was happy to get that over with! We had to attend one other required Seminar, the seminar at the Catholic Church. I believe that the Catholic […]
A Life of Love
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 […]
A Life of Love: The talk
I hope you have been enjoying my “Life of Love” Series of articles. Last time, I told you of our arrival in General Santos City (GenSan), it was a real interesting arrival, and as I think back on it, it really changed my life. At the end of my last article, I said that the […]
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 […]
A Life of Love: Heading to Mindanao
I was less than a week into my first trip to the Philippines. The trip was not so much about visiting the Philippines, rather it was about visiting a lady that I had met some 6 months earlier and exchanged a lot of mail and a few phone calls with… Feyma. Of course visiting a […]
