The Love and Life of a Fil-Am Couple

This was the term hubby told me when I wash the dishes in our dishwasher. I normally do dishes manually and very rarely I use our dishwasher. The reason I don’t use our dishwasher much is that dishwashing to me is not that a big deal and I am used to do it manually since I grew up in the Philippines washing the dishes with hands because in the first place we do not have dishwasher which most Filipinoes don’t. I told hubby before that if I can just do the dishes manually it would help cut some energy bills. But earlier, I decided to use the dishwasher since I got lazy washing them up when I saw those dishes piled up in the sink. Then hubby started asking if the dishwasher was on and I said yes, I’m using it then he said, “now you finally use the dishwasher”. “You are now  americanized”. It was funny because while he was talking to me he was trying to copy my Filipino accent when I talk English.

The internet is a very powerful tool to meet people around the globe. Who would have thought that I would meet my ever loving husband online? Yet, it happened and I would say that it worked best to us. I have a wonderful marriage. My hubby once asked himself if he would ever marry again and would experience a happy and a normal marriage after ending an 18 yrs of unhappy and a disastrous married life.  He was scared to get married again because he had such a bad experience with his previous marriage and was afraid if it would happen again. But then, he was still hopeful that someday he would re marry and have a successful marriage. I am glad that his past experience didn’t stop him to start looking and searching to find someone through a dating website. At that time, I was also interested in seeking for a serious relationship that would end in marriage. I have had a couple of correspondence and had build relationships with them one at a time of course and I thought was going to succeed and end up in marriage but it never did. Until I met hubby in one of the free dating websites for which both of us were members. He sent me message first and and introduced himself and I responded back to his message and the rest was history. We met online in Dec 2006, from then on we communicated everyday through emails and chatted twice a day for a couple of hours. Then he decided to come to the Philippines to visit and meet me for the very first time in February 15, 2007. He proposed to marry me then he met my parents, went back to US and started to file fiancee visa petition so he could take me to the US and marry me. Everything went smoothly from the visa processing until my visa interview which he came back again to be with me during my visa interview in US Embassy, Manila. I passed the interview and got my visa and we flew together to Colorado, USA. We got married in Florida and now I am almost 2 years here in the US with my husband. We are happily married and have a loving relationship. We couldn’t afford to be without each other. We are both dependent of each other, we love being together all the time which make our love and relationships grow stronger each passing day.