November 9, 2026

I had been single for a long time—ever since I gave birth to my daughter, who is turning 15 next February. The people around me, and even my daughter, always pushed me to start dating. My daughter told me that she will have her own family in the future and worried about what would happen if I were alone, but I always told them I was very busy with my work.

After I resigned from my office-based ESL job last November, I finally had the time. I saw a video on Facebook about Christian Filipina and decided to register around December.

We started chatting in January of this year, and everything went well. Since we hadn’t met yet, we were still figuring everything out, but he decided to come visit me here in the Philippines in June. When he came here, we decided to proceed to the next stage, which is to process the fiancé visa.

Navigating our long-distance relationship really works well for us right now. I usually finish my job around 1:30 or 2:00 AM and we always have our video calls scheduled right after my work, as well as around 10:00 or 11:00 my time. Hopefully soon, we will be reunited.

– Jasmin, Cebu, Philippines