Hi from Devon new here

[MissAna]

, but real life must say "you need to meet" before you can really be in love.

totally correct!!!!!!!!!!!

[songz777]

totally correct!!!!!!!!!!!

glad you agree MissAna

[Dedworth]

Good luck you sound a sensible fella with a "don't run before you've learned to walk" attitude

Have a laugh reading this - another John who back in July was "hoping to find someone with a view to marrying around December time"

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....e-introduce-me

[songz777]

Good luck you sound a sensible fella with a "don't run before you've learned to walk" attitude

Have a laugh reading this - another John who back in July was "hoping to find someone with a view to marrying around December time"

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....e-introduce-me

certainly funny, I would never rush like that wayyyyy to scary

[grahamw48]

I found it sufficient to learn how to buy a packet of fags and a (case or two of) beer. Don't break a sweat over it.

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[grahamw48]

They also have a good list of both Tagalog and Cebuano phrases in the Lonely Planet Philippines guide, which would be a useful book to take with you on a first trip.

[songz777]

They also have a good list of both Tagalog and Cebuano phrases in the Lonely Planet Philippines guide, which would be a useful book to take with you on a first trip.

Hi Granham thanks for all your input buddy I am keen to listen and learn because I owe to her and her family to make some efforts. Take care thanks for everything,John

[grahamw48]

You sound like a thoroughly noble and decent fellow.

We seem to have a lot in common.

[songz777]

You sound like a thoroughly noble and decent fellow.

We seem to have a lot in common.

Thanks my friend well I am a level headed chap, I like to think things through, do my research and know whats inolved in all this long distance stuff.
i am taking things slowly and see how we feel after say 5-6 months then decide about a holiday there, meet her parents do some site seeing and scuba diving, and if it doesnt work out, well it was a good experience and I would have had a nice holiday and met a very sweet woman .. nothing ventured nothing gained.

[andy222]

Yes mate I live here for my troubles I hope to go there in April.

[Stephen550]

Hi Andrew,,, What do you think ,, Anna's general visa granted in 7 days for six month stay,, who is the lucky one,, Best of Luck with your application.

[andy222]

Hi Andrew,,, What do you think ,, Anna's general visa granted in 7 days for six month stay,, who is the lucky one,, Best of Luck with your application.

Superb Stephen really happy for you both.

[songz777]

Hello my fellow friends here.
Well my dear friend Angeline and I have been friends now for 7 weeks, and our affection and delight in ecah other seems to grow. Skype dates are about 2 hours on a saturday and we have so much to share.
I am looking at the possability of 10 holiday in june, and checking out hotel prices and flihgt fares and car hire, it seems a very low cost place to stay just cost a lot to get there!
Thanks for all your support John

[Tawi2]

Hope you enjoy your trip to Mindanao Its a nice place to kick around,CDO is ok,everyone will appreciate you learning the language,even just enough to make them think Scrap the tagalog,thats my advice,concentrate on visayan,a little at a time and build up your vocab,before you know it the words turn into sentences,my grammar was shot to crap when I first started but its like a jig-saw,pieece by piece till the picture starts to form,I know people in Mindanao who dont speak more than a few words of tagalog and they were born there,get a decent visayan phrase-book and start learning,theres guys been married to pinays for years who speak no more than a dozen or so words,so your a novelty Enjoy your trip

[Stevie]

Good luck John for your future ... if only I were younger and had more patience I may try the same journey

[songz777]

Thanks chaps for your input Yes i have emotions of ups and downs to come and patience and oh sooo much, but slow and stready wins the race ... If she is worth persuing I will have strength to keep persuing lets see what things are like by 6 months, then I will I will be ready to enbark on a 25 hour flight and two days travelling .

[Stephen550]

Hi John, don't give up, my gf just received her general visa for six month stay in UK, she received this after only 7days from date of submitting documents, with no interveiw, it is possibe, we have been together for about 9 months and I spent 21 days with her in the Phils. If I can help let me know.
Stephen.

[songz777]

Hi John, don't give up, my gf just received her general visa for six month stay in UK, she received this after only 7days from date of submitting documents, with no interveiw, it is possibe, we have been together for about 9 months and I spent 21 days with her in the Phils. If I can help let me know.
Stephen.

Thanks Stepehn I really would value your help and advise pleasde add me as a friend or mail me. I hoped I may meet someone who lived in Devon, I need lots of help. I have just begun a serious now friendship with my Angeline now 3 months, but its plain to see me are in love as much as you can be on line, I am planning to fly out in June for holiday and meet her and her family, which amazingly have their approval on me. Many hills to climb yet but worth it. Your new friend John

[grahamw48]

34 days before I meet my girlfriend for the first time.

[songz777]

34 days before I meet my girlfriend for the first time.

wow graham, thats cool, how long have your been corresponding? when did you begin to feel, ok I am starting to fall in love with this woman?

[grahamw48]

I think we started corresponding early November last year.

Probably took me about hmm...10 minutes ?

[songz777]

I think we started corresponding early November last year.

Probably took me about hmm...10 minutes ?

Thanks Graham, well 3 months to feel in love seems ok to me then I have learnt that its no good looking to far ahead as there are to many hills to climb to get to the top which is being married to her, but I am enjoying the getting there and being in love seems to make the days skip by

[lastlid]

I met my wife online in early March. Met her face to face in mid April for just over a week and then married her in June. She got her Spouse visa in September and arrived in Britain on 1st October.

[Dedworth]

Some fast movers on here

[lastlid]

Some fast movers on here

Yep. I wanted to marry her in April but found that it wasnt possible and had to go back in June.

[grahamw48]

Some of us can't afford to hang about ....running out of life.

[grahamw48]

Yep, fall in love....meet the lady in person and then hopefully stay in love.

Take it from there.

They've got to make the old heart race a bit to get you running for that plane and endure the tedious 20 hour journey.

Bear in mind though, I HAVE been scanning the dating sites for about 4 years now, and reckon to have a reasonable understanding of Filipino culture and thought processes, after being backwards and forwards to the place for over 20 years including spells of residence of up to 3 years and having had 12 years of marriage to a Filpina.

Doesn't guarantee success or compatibility, but does mean that the rose-coloured specs went years ago.