Well ... at the risk of sounding repetitive ... MY reply is [basically] no different from those of most of the others so far. And although I'd heard so many good things about Filipina wives, I'd never really given the matter much thought ... having been widowed for 16 years after a long and happy first marriage. Indeed, by the time I had reached my early 60s, I never, in my wildest dreams, imagined myself settling down to "domestic bliss" a second time and, in fact, found I was quite content with being a free agent.

But all that was to change in 2007 ... when a chance encounter online led to two visits to the Phils the following year. And the rest, as they say, is history ...!