How are you adjusting?

[davenjanet 22]

There was a nice thread a little why ago, "How is your Filipina/Filipino adjsting?" My fiance and I read it all the way threw last night.

It's occurred to me often that I will have just as big an adjustment. So I wanted to reverse the question a bit.

How are you adjusting to living with and loving a woman from a very different country and culture?

[Stevephoto 230]

I cannot wait to be able to answer your question!

[Hank_ 9,174]

... what can I say, the dishwasher is still collecting dust.

As for me... I'm all smiles still after a year +.

[B_J 2,752]

I'm getting fatter.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

There was a nice thread a little why ago, "How is your Filipina/Filipino adjsting?" My fiance and I read it all the way threw last night.

It's occurred to me often that I will have just as big an adjustment. So I wanted to reverse the question a bit.

How are you adjusting to living with and loving a woman from a very different country and culture?

Woman are pretty much women. They all tick the same way.

The social life with a pinay is more robust. Seems like always something going on , and often time the details get messed up.You have to be ready to roll at all times.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

There are times I wish Filipina's came with mute buttons.

[Hank_ 9,174]

Ya know the saying... loud pipes save lives? I just go riding.

They never say who's life they are saving!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

There are times I wish Filipina's came with mute buttons.

When Iam rding down the road, and the phone conversation turns to something that sounds like Ah See Gizzy Gizzy Gee. it is music because i know they are about to hang up.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

When Iam rding down the road, and the phone conversation turns to something that sounds like Ah See Gizzy Gizzy Gee. it is music because i know they are about to hang up.

"Sige...okay...Sige ha? Okay...bye..."

[Richard & Geh 1]

I also am looking forward to answering this question as well.

[Calypso 464]

We've been married for more than three years but my USC husband is not yet used to me washing his jeans right away after he wears them once. He wants to keep using each pair of jeans a few times but I don't let him.

[bmiles62 5]

I love this topic. She has been here two years and there has never been a dull moment since. I agree with a lot of the statements above. I am getting fatter and since she tapped into the local Filipino community we have a very active social life. Birthdays Anniversaries, Christenings seem to happen almost every weekend and yes we never know when to arrive. American time, Filipino time or something in between. I would have to say that everything I had hoped for in this relationship has been exceeded on a daily basis and I had some pretty high expectations.

Edited May 6, 2013 by bmiles62

[Caryh 5,206]

A year and half now for us.

I'm fatter, so she calls me tambok, but refuses to let me diet or eat less.

I'm trying to learn how to tune my hearing, English is spoken very soft, so soft it can be hard to hear without close attention. Bisaya or Tagalog are spoken at volumes that can be picked up back home in Davao City.

My nails, finger and toe, are now nicely manicured at all times.

I've become addicted to rice and understand now why Filipinos can be hungry if they don't get rice.

I speak some words in Bisaya or Tagalog so much, that I have to think to speak them in English around Americans.

Dealing with her homesickness was a real pain in the butt. She still gets mild bouts with it, but nothing like that first year.

I've ruined her now I think. She didn't use to be a shopper, now she loves to visit the malls.

In some things she's been like a duck in water in America, in others she stubbornly refuses to adjust.

When she got her she loved the washer and drier, now she keeps buying handwash only clothes

I'm happier than a man has a right to be. I can't wait every day for us to get home and be together.

[Caryh 5,206]

OH and the big adjustments for me

The house is always too darn hot, 79 or 80 degrees. I'm sweating in the depths of winter now.

Her car with zone heating, it feels like I'm standing in the door way of an air conditioned building in the desert, me setting my side at 68 with her side set to 79 or 80.

In my car, its just too darn hot for her sake when she's in it, much like the house.

Asking something and not being heard because she's busy texting in Bisaya or Tagalog. I wait until she's done so she can understand English again.

Gotten so used to getting my nails done, yesterday I napped through the entire process. After I woke up, she asked if it disturbed me because she dug in kind of deep on one of the toenails and my foot moved. I didn't wake up at all

Used to eating fish that look back at me, and shrimp, and pig, and duck, what is it with food that looks back at you and Filipinas?

Another food item, vegetables always get cooked with about 30% pork added. Those are my kind of veggies

Having the shrine set up in the living room to Jesus and Momma Mary. Don't mess with the shrine, even to put your coffee cup on it for a second, the boss will get upset. I knew the shrine was important to her, I said anywhere in our house was OK with me, as this is our, not my home now.

Sleeping above the covers, see house temps in first line. It does go down to a cold by her standards 73 at night. She's under the comforter, and if I get chilly I just move closer to her and feel the heat radiating through the comforter. Seriously its like being near a fire!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

OH and the big adjustments for me

The house is always too darn hot, 79 or 80 degrees. I'm sweating in the depths of winter now.

Her car with zone heating, it feels like I'm standing in the door way of an air conditioned building in the desert, me setting my side at 68 with her side set to 79 or 80.

In my car, its just too darn hot for her sake when she's in it, much like the house.

She just needs to wear more clothes, or you less. My wife lives under the electric blanket all winter.