(While many of the items in Part I might be true, Bob Lingerfelt (also married to a Filipina) of FilipinaWives.com thinks they are a bit misleading. After all, Filipina wives are not mere eccentricities, they’re also loving, nurturing women who typically do their best to make a perfect home. So after you finish reading the preceding list, try this one. It’s a bit more even handed.)

You may be married to a Filipina if . . .

• there’s always singing in your house, even when the radio’s off.
• your own mom, who was lukewarm about your marriage originally, now calls you long distance…to talk to your wife, not to you.
• your family announces that in the unlikely event of a divorce between you and your wife, she will always have a place to stay, but you better find a new family.
• your wife asks to get a job so that you will both have a little extra money, then thanks you for not complaining about having to drive her to work.
• your wife has a contagious smile.
• you both decide to divide your spare income, and you spend yours on a computer game or a power tool, only to learn that she spent her money buying clothes for you
• she might not have had a second pair of shoes growing up, but she’s rapidly making up for lost time.
• everything in your house is “namebrand”.
• you have a Western Union “Preferred Customer” card. Really.
• you complain when your wife tells you that longaniza is only for breakfast.
• you learn to like rice, even plain.
• you have a budget.
• she may only tell you she loves you once in awhile. But, she shows you that she loves you in everything she does and says.
• you go to sleep each night knowing you’re the luckiest man in the world.

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Go back to the first part of “You May Be Married to a Filipina If . . .”