About 16 years ago, I read I’d be better
off with a foreign wife.

The article said forget about American
women; they’re not worth it anymore.

So I went on a quest to find a foreign wife
and found one in the Philippines.

She was absolutely beautiful and spoke
English quite well.

She waited online for me for two years, a
rare thing for a long distance relationship.

I moved to the Philippines, and we got married
in a church there.

For four years things went reasonably well,
felt my gamble with a foreign wife paid off.

I brought her to the US, and I encouraged her
to find Filipina female friends to not be isolated.

A year later the marriage fell apart; she spent
more time with her friends than with me,

and she wanted a guy who could take her on
expensive trips all the time.

Then she left despite all that I had done for her
and a son she had that died at age 5.

Lesson learned, whether homegrown or foreign,
women are women and never any guarantees.

Now, an old man, I live alone womanless, and I’ll
probably be womanless till the day I die.

Bob Boyd