Filipino - Foreigner Marriage Statistics

I agree with most of your opinion. I'm a workingclass boy, never look down at uneduated people. Also you can be educated in many ways. The Mokum people in Thailand are high educated in what they are doing, badjao, indians and eskimos same. We spoil their lifes, but that another topic. What I try to say before, is religious fanaticism, poverty and no knowledge (education) about whats going on in the world around you, means you are an easy offer for manipulation from outside. Money, food, some religious bla bla, you can come long way with that kind of people, that was my point. Sorry for my not so perfect english, happy eastern

 

Pls Wrye, can you move my post to the right place

 

I agree 100%

 

Also WHY I NEVER subscribe to this unnecessary part of many lives, I grew up 'in the Church' and saw many things that have long since poisoned me against this hypocritical pastime; "The weekend hypocrite"... IMHO RADICAL Christians are no better than RADICAL Muslims! I have friends who are both Christian and Muslim, each to their own if they are mainstream and practice what they believe without hurting their fellow human, or trying to brainwash me into their nonsense! I can think for myself and stand on my own two feet and do not need something to prop me up in life, but when either side becomes radical or PUSHY in their beliefs, then in my opinion they slide further down the evolutionary ladder and become backward thinking oxygen thieves...

 

Following politics back in Oz and watching what the Politicians have been/are doing to the country over the past few decades, I do not see much difference between here and there at this point in time, part of the reason I decided to come here to live, couldn't be any worse here, and hopefully here will get better here over time, where as imho Oz will continue to deteriorate into a sh*t hole country with little to no future for the citizens there unless something changes drastically with what is on offer for upcoming elections, and I really do not hold any hope in that department...

 

When I saw the topic, I thought posted in wrong place. Talk about intelligence and marriage in same topic ? lol

 

Very sad and scary stories in this article

 

My personal experience is the other way around. I had to drop from college for obvious reasons in early 80s and spent a couple of years looking for "opportunities" to go back, met somebody who promised to help which ended up with me becoming an unmarried mother. By mid 80s some of my neighbors were headed for Japan as "entertainers". Hating the reputation, I tried harder to stay but eventually joined the group and got a six-month contract where I met my Japanese husband who said he divorced his Japanese wife for 18 years-"been single for two years now", he said. The reason for the divorce was according to him, he felt like he lost his 'position/standing/power' in the household when the children of his wife from a previous marriage grew up. His wife's uterus was removed due to some disease so they don't have children of their own. He was telling the truth except the divorce part. I went home after the contract, he followed a month later, came again two months later with the documents needed to marry me. This was when I found out that he divorced his wife so he can marry me. He thought I wouldn't know because all the documents were in Japanese and the local judge married us anyway, but then the Japanese Embassy told us that we can't be married unless they check all his documents and print an English version so we had to start all over again. To make the story short, even though how much I tried, helping him at his construction business-cutting metals, twisting bolts, painting climbing up at construction sites though it was safe, it was hard during the winter months. A hard working man, I wished my father was like him...my mother was the most industrious person in our family. That's why I admired him and fell in love but it took him 12 years to finally realize that. No, there was no physical abuse, harsh words, controlling attitude, cheating, which he gets away by refering to work stuff--like when he takes his customers to bars, hav fun all night, getting home drunk, waking up the kids. Anyway, I left after 17 years because of the fear of being away from my two girls with him. How much more pain it would be to do it the second time around. I worked 78 hours/week, managed to keep myself until he filed a divorce seven years after I left. Wait, am I off topic now!?