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Alone

This is my first day as an independent woman – no mom to take care of almost everything for me from food to wardrobe. I literally took care of everything now – from appliances, furnishings to the most petty stuff like Aquatell.com water softener and laundry gloves. People wonder if I would even survive this experiment. I’ll be turning 40 in a few years, therefore, I should.

I still have few more years to sort what my next move would be. Moving out of the family home was the first step to establish my financial independence. After that would be a career review. Do I still see myself working hard in the same capacity and company? Or would I even consider making a 180-degree change – like embarking into an eat-pray-love kind of journey?

Never been this scared.

Pro-divorce: Reality bites

I am for the sanctity of marriage and seeing families intact and happy. And I believe that no person in his right mind would wish his marriage be broken and his family be divided. Everyone started with really good intentions and dreams. Otherwise, why marry?

But the reality speaks far from these ideals. People make mistakes everyday, and that includes marrying the person you thought was the best.

The annulment in the Philippines is an almost useless tool in settling marital disputes. Simply because of the price tag and selectivity it carries. Only people who could afford it gets the annulment, making it a privilege of the upper class. But what about those majority who couldn’t afford it? While it serves the purpose of discouraging marital break-ups, people who are at the bottom of the social strata remain helpless in their situations until death do them part.

That kind of suffering is not called a virtue, but stupidity. Women and children are given a first taste of hell by living with someone who subject them to unimaginable forms of abuse. Our records reek with stories of philandering spouses, battered wives and abandoned children.

So leave that holier-than-thou attitude to the church altars and wholesale life insurance salesman, and realize these things:

- That families have already been BREAKING UP for the longest time. We’re too afraid to admit to society that certain unions are failures.

- Children are SENSITIVE. They can feel if something is not right between mom and dad. If you think that you can shield your children from your marital problems by pretending that everything’s ok, you are deceiving yourselves. THEY KNOW.

- Not all children who grew up in broken homes end up to be losers. In fact, there are far too many who became successful because they understood what it was like to live with almost nothing.

- A STRONG-WILLED single parent can raise kids ALONE and make them better individuals later on

- Most abandoned families suffer in poverty .

Bye Willie

Again. Willie Revillame on national TV last night.

Find it weird that every time I get a chance to watch TV and hop on TV5, Willie is there making another speech. And so I listened to what he had to say while tempted to call the network to cut the chase, go to the point and ask if that would be his last. While he was so engrossed in his monologue, a long history of his personal battles in defense of the poorest of the poor, I fell asleep.

Today I learned he went on leave after advertisers pulled out their support from the program.

What did we learn from this?

- With or without a job on TV, Willie has already amassed a fortune enough to keep him alive until retirement. And he can afford to hire all kinds of lawyers – Texas truck accident lawyer, the Fortun brothers, or even the one who succeeded in freeing Hubert – to defend him. So please, he is not kawawa.

- The poor remains. But nothing is written on stone, so there’s hope to be better. I mean, richer.

- The reason why there are Willie’s out there is we allowed them to grow fat to feed our fantasies and give us garbage. Lesson to the advertisers: It’s not all about money. Think values. Think reputation.

- Amazing to find that there are still people out there who want to see this country improve.

Very good.

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