Our culture is collectivist in nature, wherein we value tight-knit families and pakikisama with our relatives. Marriage here is never just about the couple. Instead, a couple’s relationship is embedded in the wider web of extended family relationships — with parents, siblings, titos and titas, even cousins. This close connection can be seen when families […]
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4 Small Things that will Strengthen the Bond in Your Marriage
It’s not the yearly, fancy travel that creates a strong marriage, nor the expensive gifts that each one of you receive from each other, but it’s those daily little things that you do for one another that strengthens the bond of a marriage. As they say, “little things are the big things.” This saying also holds […]
Wife’s Brothers are Dependent on us
I just need some advice. There are times when I cry out of self-pity. I have exhausted all my savings and been buried in debt. I have also borrowed from my own parents just to send my brothers-in-law to school. Now that they are 23 and 25, already finished in their studies, they refuse to […]