My neighbor, who is a dear friend of mine had a very inspirational story. She had her husband for 18 years, they are blessed with two children, both boys. Her husband is kind, family oriented, and a good provider. He had all the positive traits except for being a jealous guy. He worked hard for his family but at times, he was with his friends drinking liquor. And that triggered his jealousy. Whenever he’s drunk, he always suspected his wife of having a lover, which according to my friend is not true because she loves her husband unconditionally, she is a stick-to-one person, if she loves somebody, she will love him to the rest of her life. For 18 years of being together, they had the same drama all the time when husband is drunk. It happened again and again. But the time come that the wife finally realized that being jealous of her husband is only front of him because he is the one who’s cheating to the wife, he had a mistress. The wife discovered it when she once got husband’s phone and checked it, though she knew that what she did was wrong, she doesn’t care at all because of what she discovered. They talked and tried to fix their relationship but it failed. The husband decided to leave his wife and the kids. Upon leaving, he never had given any single cent to support the children. Mother worked hard as a sewer to raise her kids well.
They’ve been apart for more than ten years. The guy had many relationships with other girls, she knew it because of the social media, but she said that she doesn’t care anymore coz she moved on with her life, she is happy being with her two kids. The two boys both graduated in high school. They never been in to college since mother has no resources so the eldest seek a job to help with their living. He is now a regular employee in an electronics company while the younger one had his own family, they have two kids now. Mother is living alone in their house, she had, any suitors but for the longest time, she never falls in love with any other guy. There’s this one guy who is very patient in courting her, for three years, he often goes to her house bringing some gifts, foods, snacks, and many other things. At first, she said she never liked him until one time, she got sick. The guy is the one who took care of her, gave all her needs while she is sick, accompanied her to the hospital and did everything to her until she recovered. The girl then realized that she needed a man in her life, a person who she can lean on in times of need, a person who she can share all her happy thoughts and worries, a person who loves her and she will love in return.
She told me that she is happy now, yeah, they live together now making new beautiful memories. The new guy loved the children of her, and also, they love the grandchildren. They both have their own houses, sometimes they stay in my friend’s house here in our barangay and they went to the guy’s house once or twice a week, it is located in the next barangay.
No matter what happened in her past relationship, the most important is her life now is going well together her new found love.
Our age, no matter how old we are, we surely can still find someone who will love us and we will love back. And our experiences and hardships in life always leave us a learning or two. Live freely, love freely.
