I'm inspired of Eddie and Barbie's love story that's why I write this story.

Jeff was married before I was born, her name was Connie.They were both good christian and active in church activities.Connie was kind-hearted woman and she was so close to her husband's family and Jeff was too to her family.They were a great couple like Eddie and Barbie.They loved each other so much.They been married for 17 years and they encountered storm on their life.She got a cancer.She been sick for three years and some months got better and then some were worst.There were months that she just laid in bed and not able to got up.Even of all those things happen to them,they were still believe that God will heal her someday.Jeff was really hoping that someday she got better and everything will be fine.With the help of his and her family they took good care of her.Sometimes he missed his work just to be with his wife.They been struggling for three years until one day in December 2004 God took her away.Jeff was really upset and mad.He stopped going to church and any  kind of church activities.For him,his life was useless!

These are stories that I heard about my husband before I met him .

It was January 2006 when I prayed God heart to heart in Tampilisan Cathedral to send me the right man in my life.All my life I wanted to build a happy and strong family.I came from broken family and it was really rough for me.There were times that I just eat once a day,sometimes can eat three times if my roomates shared their food to me.I been encountered many things just to survive.I was self supported in College and knowing that Philippines is very very poor country.Job there is very rare especially in my hometown.Getting a job there is like getting water in a dessert area.I was selling any stuff that make a profits.RTW'S,food,school supplies,perfumes,bags and just anything in a moral way.That's why I was really careful of choosing a man.I had a boyfriend when I was fourth year high school and it was just last a week.And I broke up with him upon knowing that one of my schoolmate was pregnant by his baby.

Well,anyway on February God answered my prayer.My cousin fetched me one night in my dormitory because my aunt wanted to talk to me.And on that night I learned Jeff's story.I got my cousin who been married for 2 years with her American husband in America.And her husband iss Jeff's friend.And my cousin's husband wanted to help him to recover from it.

I found out that Jeff was an interesting man and something touched my heart about him.We mailed letter to my cousin asking about her life there and telling also about our life. We send also some photos with:my aunt,my cousins and me.

After one month,I spend another weekend to my aunt and we received call from Jeff.I didn't understand all the things that he said to me.My english was so poor before.Only one thing that I understand from him that he saw my picture and he said I'm pretty and wanted me to be his friend.Then I told him "sure why not".

After that week,I spend another weekends to my aunt so I can talk to Jeff because I got no cellphone or even a telephone in my dormitory before.Philippines was not that behind about technology on that time but my school was in remote area,and only few people can afford cellphone.Well,he said that he wanted to know me better and he wanted to talk to me everyday.He send me money to buy me a cellphone and extra for the minutes.Of course,I was so happy on that time.You can't blamed me I was so poor and can't even afford for my food.I bought me a cellphone,minutes and blankets for my siblings on that weekend.My siblings was so happy too but not my dad.He scared of what will happen next between me and Jeff.My dad just lost his job on that year (January 1).I know...was a sad new year to my siblings and to my dad.

I and Jeff talking each other everyday.And decided to meet through yahoo messenger'cam.So I went to the nearest city on my place that got and internet cafe.I was so nervous and my heart was beating crazy upon looking Jeff's face.I found out that he is a good man and a funny guy.He had many jokes and he can imitate many animal's voices.Like cow,pig,chicken,monkey,and many more.I was having so much fun with him.I never even noticed that it was already five hours since we been talking until my cousin complained that she was already hungry.I went home with smile on my face and I know that my heart was already captured on that time.

We keep talking each through cellphone and in yahoo messenger and he send me some romantic notes in my cellphone like" sleep tight angel".This word melted my heart.Anyway,he told me he wanted to visit me in my country during my school break on May.Then I was like "Oh no!"I was planning to find a job on my school break.But as I said it's really hard to find a job on my place I didn't get any,so I told him to go ahead if he still wants to visit me.

So we meet May 16th.I will never forget this day.We met him in Dipolog City's airport.My cousin Arlene,Aunt Ediong,Aunt Lita and my dad was with me on that time. Oh my heart was beating so fast while I was waiting him.I can even heard it.It seems my heart wanted to jump out from my chest.Jeff was the last foreigner guy came out among the group and he walked like a movie actor while chewing a gum.I did see on his face that he was excited to meet me and I saw the sparks on his eyes that he was attracted to me.

Well,to make the story short he went on my country thrice and we fallen love each other and get married on May 14th 2007 in Winchester.He was my first kiss,my first love and first of everything.And with him I encountered things that I never been encountered before, just like riding a plane.When I was a kid,my mom told me to wave my hands to every plane that I saw and they will drop me some money.For being so innocent I waved my hands for every plane that I saw before and yelled loud "hello airplane may I ride on?"

Jeff is a great and loving husband.But we have also problems in our marriage.Sometimes he called me by the name of his late wife and I can't blame him he been with her for 20 years and calling this name for hundreds times.But I can't help my feelings, I still get hurted and seems my heart tore into pieces every time he do this to me.And his family loved his late wife so much and it was so hard for me to enter to their heart.He got a neice that she doesn't even like to talk to me and this is so hard for me.To be a younger aunt is already hard for me.I felt so insecured even on my height.Most of them are taller than me,so I just look like a kid marrying their uncle.That's why every time they have a family gatherings I don't want to attend but as a wife I needed too.I can't be with myself in front of them for I was scared to make any mistakes or anything that might offend them.By doing this make me so uncomfortable and the result made them more not like me.But I believe that someday everything will be just fine.God was the one who planned everything for us.He was the one who made a way to meet each other.Philippines is thousands miles away from U.S.A ,so without His plan and guidance there is no way that I met my husband and get married.So I just trust it all to Him.