Health emergencies and living solo abroad
For the first time, I dialed 119 and in my broken Japanese, I tried to explain to the operator why I needed an ambulance at the ungodly hour of 2
December 2, 2020
For the first time, I dialed 119 and in my broken Japanese, I tried to explain to the operator why I needed an ambulance at the ungodly hour of 2
A 2016 survey revealed that over two million Filipinos are working abroad. The national heroes in our history books may have made the biggest sacrifices for the nation, but their
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Early in our marriage, my husband got a job abroad and I came along to set up a home for him in the Middle East. He’s a very handsome guy and I’m very much in love with him. I never worried or had reason to be jealous of him in that place. The country we lived in was very strict about the separation of men and women.
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I am a nurse, and about to leave for a job abroad. But I am having second thoughts—should I or shouldn’t I? I am 25 years old, married, with a three-month-old baby. I also have a 10-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
I have just seen your articles in the newspaper about OFWs having affairs. I am a New Zealand man, 64 years old, who spent nearly four years in an immigration office struggling to bring to my country a Filipino lady. Three times, I visited your beautiful country and met many wonderful people who I came to admire. Finally, I was able to get permission for my lady, aged 48, to come here.
My husband is in Qatar right now, and I’ve learned that he is having an affair with his office mate and that they’re living together. I saw their pictures on Facebook and I felt horrible.
My husband and I have known each other for 18 years—first in an 11-year relationship, and then married for five. He told me our relationship would meet its fruition with marriage. He is only three years older, but I look up to him.
I’m 42 and retired from being an overseas Filipino worker last year. I am financially stable now, thanks to some business and investments I’ve made. I have more or less achieved most of my dreams, except one. I don’t have a child of my own. At 30 and two years into my marriage, we found out that my wife would not be able to bear a child. We ended up adopting a boy who is now 15.
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