I could have married the retired pro soccer player; he wanted to show me the world.
I could have married the TV broadcasting senior execuitive; he wanted to buy me the world.
But I didn't. I married Snickers.
Before we got married, he had only his two feet to take him around so any hopes of showing me the world consisted of where ever our feet could get us. He bought me corner store coffee on our first date cause he couldn't afford Coffeebean coffee, so he couldn't buy me the world.
He made me his world, something no one else has ever made me feel close to being.
Marrying Snickers was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.
Marriage life isn’t all bliss but my marriage life is definitely more amazing than I ever expected.
And I think my marriage is more stable than so many I know… scary but true. I say scary cause when you consider the fact that most of my friends married someone from their own country and own language, you’d expect them to have less bumps in the road than Snickers and I – we’re from two different countries, cultures, and we didn’t even speak the same language when we first dated. Our first date consisted of us sitting on a bench in the park, using our cell phone dictionaries to translate random words.
Too many people settle and too many people know they’ve settled too; that’s even more scary. Everyone has the right to be happily head-over-heels in love but I don’t think everyone lets themselves be so happily in love, or in love for that matter.
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to move back to Canada anytime soon because of Snickers’ past legal runs in with the law but you know what, I kind of have come to terms with it. I may be living in his country but just like me he too has sacrificed a lot to be in this relationship. And I know sometimes I’m not a very easy person to ride along with. Everything I think I’ve “given up” to be with him doesn’t come close to all that I’ve gained from being with him.
Sure I miss my family and friends, I regret missing out so much in their life. I am sad that they’ve missed out so much in my life but I’m more than happy with Snickers, and if being stuck in Korea means being by his side always then so be it. As for our marriage, it isn’t perfect, we’ve got a broken down bathroom door to vouch for that but even after two years of being together, we’re still very much the attached-at-the-hips couple that romance novels are made upon.
This year my brother Bobby-B is getting married and I can only wish that he’s found his “Snickers”, so to speak that is, in his fiancé cause if he has than he’s one of the blessed ones.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Are you one of the blessed ones?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love with all your heart or don't love at all.
-- Author Unknown
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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