Does your family know your SO?

[Niels Bohr 72]

I married someone who is very poor and went through so many adversity. She's from Cambodia. Her life is very dramatic, and sad. Throughout her life, she has no parents. She have an older sister who takes care of her though. At a very young age, she had to goto water wells and dig up gallons of water to sell to villagers. She walks miles with the water on her shoulders with no shoes on. The money she made from it was not much. Around her teen years she worked in Thailand for a restaurant owner who stole her passport, and didn't pay her money earned. She was stuck there, and forced to work for the rich owner. Sometimes she had to cook 2 days straight without any sleep. She's very strong. A friend of my sister's in-law mother saw this happening and decided to go and rescue her. She was freed.

She was also a subject of hard physical labor. Before I met her, the friend said that her fingernails were ruined. It was ripped, torn. I'm glad I met her. She's very special. All her clothes then was from people who donated it to her. I offered to buy her clothes, and she refuses the offer. I also tried to give her some allowance to live on. She also refuses. At that moment, I know that she's the one for me. She's not selfish at all. Her characteristic seem to lack this feature. Now she's 23.

She lives in a country with a very poor economy. And, she rather remain poor than be rich. She also refused many offer of engagement by other men who were rich, or who have face in the country. I can't find a woman like that in the United States. Never, so I married her. She loves me because I see the truth in people by looking them face forward, and that I have high perserverance towards adversity .And, that I care strongly about my own future success by going to school full-time and working full-time. That's what she told me.

Sad story. Happy ending. Once she gets here to the States, I have a high responsibility to make sure she is happy as well as myself. She won't have a tough life anymore when she gets here.