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"Wow… dude, you're pretty cynical about relationships." - Cynics arent born. They are made. I'm just being careful. I made a big mistake once… as well as a few small mistakes. The small mistakes didnt change my ignorant mind… and still kept leading me down the road to make bigger mistakes… until I made the biggest mistake that changed my life forever.
And here is something about human nature that kinda sucks: Humans will keep abusing a situation that gives them power over others. In Islamic countries, women get stoned to death even if theyre the victims of rape. Like this poor girl who killed a man in self-defence (somewhere in Iran… or Pakistan…). The man tried to rape her but she was able to get a knife and stab him. Still. She got stoned to death. Men got so much power over there (at least over women… but its the ayatollas who command all the power). So men abuse it over there. Of course, even in those harsh places, there are still men who find it difficult to hurt women… but the bottomline is that their societies support abuse against women.
In the West, the reverse is true. You think if I report to the police that my wife is beating me up… and show them evidence of it… I'd get laughed at and ignored… and she'd get a slap on the wrist at the most. If I fight back, I'd go to jail. Sitting duck. If society SUPPORTS abuse, abuse will keep comin and comin and comin.
Oh well… no place is perfect. I'd suck it up and deal with it (that includes the necessary attitude adjustments). The reason my parents brought me here a long time ago and the rest of the family is because they dont wanna suck up the negative stuff in the Philippines. As good as the west is… economically and financially, that is how good the Philippines is as far as relationships are concerned.
It is part of the culture… to help each other. We got a cultural term for that… called "bayanihan". The literal word for "help each other" is "tulungan". Catholicism and the priests… are the ones responsible for the propaganda in shaming people who cheat and abuse their partners. So if you abuse your partner there, the whole community will lose respect for you. So abusers there have no fucking choice but to be good in order to win back the respect of the community (there are hardhead fucks who dont care about the community's opinion of them but that is a minority of a minority). Since most are Catholic. And yes. Same thing for man and woman.
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Remember… he's still a baby. And he still needs his mommy. :(
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