Comments on: when reality is panting at your heels, run faster

By: julie

julie — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:06:51 +0000

Being single has its perks, I know, because a lot, I mean a whole lot of my friends are single! That includes my children’s godmothers. They can go wherever they want to go, do what they want and enjoy being with their friends and family members too. But we have talked about these and yes, they admit, at the end of the day, they would want to have someone to go home too. They want to experience the kind of “problems” parents like me have.

And as for my family, we are a package deal, always together in all our free time. Just can’t leave the children behind. During vacations when they spend days with my parents, then my husband and I get to enjoy each other’s company. But then, sigh, we miss them terribly.

By: annamanila

annamanila — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:04:30 +0000

I can relate with constantly not having anything to wear. I can relate with self-imposed curfew — even now when my children are all grown-up.

How disciplined ha?! And yet I can’t impose a curfew on my blogging/scrabbling.

By: ladycess

ladycess — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:39:36 +0000

di pa ko tapos magcomment…,na-post agad.

anyway, i so agree auee. ang layo na natin from the carefree singletons we once were. we miss the lives we had, pero i believe youll agree with me, we may wish to go back to being single and carefree, pero when it’s right there in your face, the prospect of us not being “burdened” with wife and mommy responsibilities, tingnan lang natin kung matuwa tayo kaya a couple of hours or maybe days lang ang ok sa atin. longer and we’ll be in agony.

kwento ko lang. true story to ha. there was this group of mommies who were officemates who had to go to this beautiful beach resort for 5 days and 4 nights – company planning whatever. they were so excited, kasi nga naman, pwede na silang mag-feeling single kahit for 5 days lang, tapos libre pa.

so they were very happy on the first night, tuloy pa rin ang ligaya nung 2nd night. nung 3rd night, nag-iinuman sila, tapos lasing na lasing na sila, and they were all screaming “miss na miss ko na ang anak ko!” and they were all crying and feeling miserable. pinagtatawanan sila ng mga officemates nila afterwards, pero it was really touching diba. nakaka-relate ako

By: ladycess

ladycess — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:27:30 +0000

it’s futile to run faster, reality overtakes everyone

By: Cookie

Cookie — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:30:11 +0000

Single life and married life are two entirely different worlds. I agree. I have felt that way for the longest time too. Kaya lang when I realized that I was really hindering my own enjoyment ako na din ang gumawa ng paraan. You know what, it actually helped. Both my husband and I make the effort to plan activities outside of “family activities”. Now we enjoy ourselves together and on our own. It has helped make our marriage more enjoyable. Even our kids understand that sometimes mama and papa need to do things without them

By: geri

geri — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:17:16 +0000

Auee, I could so relate. 2 weeks ago a girl friend and I watched a movie and half the time I was wishing my husband was with us to see it because know how he would have enjoyed the movie. Last Halloween when hitched a ride with a couple planning to have a baby soon and going to the Bahamas this Xmas, I told them to travel as much as they can because once the baby comes along it will be so much harder. The husband said, “oh no, when we travel we’ll leave the baby behind”. Told him, “yes, you can still do that but you won’t enjoy it as much as you used to.” It’s really different, married life is, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.