Advantages and Disadvantages of Marrying a Foreigner

Here are some of the bonuses and minuses of being married to a foreigner. Though it doesn't happen to everybody. Here goes the list....

1. You will get so many instant friends and relatives though you don't really know them.

2. Your enemies become your friends. (hmmm...)

3. You will suddenly get respect from your family and friends.

4. From being a rag to gold.

5. From eating fishballs in the street to eat fishballs in the fancy restaurant. ( What is the difference anyway? ooh...the ambiance and it costs.)

6. From living in an airlaps house to an airconditioned bungalow.

7. You can now help your family financially.

8. Your kids will be very cute, handsome, mestizo and of course, has a long nose.

9. You can travel to different places in the world.

10. Riding a luxury car, plus having your own driver. (Gone are the walking days.)

11. When your out of the country, you will receive long love letters from your relatives narrating their wishlists.

Those are just some of the perks.

Here are the minus facts.

1. You will be judged as a gold digger.

2. You will be the star of your place. ( The main pulutan for chismis.)

2. Your main dialect change: from an easy language to a nose bleeding one.

3. Your family will be depending on you, you will be shouldering the debt burden they have, like getting unnecessary things just for luxury or worst engaging to vices.

4. You will miss the tuyo, bagoong and adobo your mother usually cooks.

5. From being conservative to a liberated one.

6. You have to embrace a different culture.

7. You will miss the sunshine often.

These things can change a part of you , and hopefully, only a part of you because it is very nice to keep the beautiful aspects of being a filipina.

It doesn't matter whoever he is and whatever he has. What matters most is that you love him. And there, you can beat all the odds.

Have a happy marriage. :_)