Age Gap!

I went to a wedding last weekend. It was one of our friends from my fil-am community. You know how we are filipinos are, it's a friend of a friend, met him twice in a gathering next thing I knew I was invited to their wedding.

He is a doctor and she is a young lass from Mindanao. She's in her early twenties and he's in his 60's. It is really a big age gap. I don't know, it is really hard for me to write about this because she is one of my own. I mean she's a filipina too. People talk behind their back about the relationship (for obvious reason) the girl is a young woman and the man is old enough to be his grandfather.

You know people can be brutal. I've known many filipinas with a much older guys and I can tell that it's a happy union, from most that I've seen and from couples that we knew. I think at the beginning it will always be a shocked. I initially felt uneasy at that wedding just by looking at the couple but I got over it. This is what I've learned from all of this. Yes filipinas look for foreign husband on the net to get out of the Philippines and get out of poverty. I find comfort in the fact that one very poor, no education filipina who marries a foreigner, get out of the country and lift her family out of poverty to me that is justifiable but other times it's sinister.

But at this wedding I felt securely comfortable, I knew Lia and Dr. P's love for each other put all the naysayers doubt to rest. Congratulations to Mr & Mrs. P! (I'm heeding your request to not put your pictures on my blog.) It was indeed a simple, lovely and enchanting evening. Best Wishes!