Do You Have a Filipino Girlfriend You Met Online?

I remember we had read this story in high school called "Pina San Ka Pupunta?" (Pina where are you going?). It's a story of an ambitious young woman looking for a rich husband. She finds out that her favorite actress is living the good life after she married an Australian man. She decides the only way she could reach her ambitions is if she marries a foreigner, preferably white since they are all rich. She made an American penpal and started to exchanging letters. He finally came over to her province, got her pregnant and left. Her dreams of marry a rich man and living the American dream was crushed. The story ended with a self induced abortion. Now what was the moral of that story?

It makes me uncomfortable to think that sometimes a husband isn't always considered a lover. To some women a husband is more of a financial source whom you have sex with to keep him happy.

The reason most of these women want to become a mail order brides is that they believe that if they marry an foreigner especially if he's American or European then they also marry rich then they won't ever have to work for the rest of their lives. Other reasons aren't so superficial. For example: instead of being shipped off to Japan to become a prostitute some women marry a foreigner to support their family back home.

In this day and age you don't have simply write letters to each other thanks to the internet there are a bunch of lonely, aged Americans for any Filipina girl to find. You could see each other through webcam and if she's really desperate for you to send her a few bucks she'll take off her clothes.

My Aunt found her now husband that way, well she didn't take off her clothes I meant she met him over the internet. Soon after they sent letters to each other. When my aunt told me that she had a penpal I didn't think she meant future husband. I was thinking that it was most likely another female and they were exchanging packages with pictures, stationary and other girly things. When I asked for a penpal she told me that I was too young to get married. When I told her that I thought penpals were friends she replied 'yeah right'.