Philippines Vacation Guide • Part 9 of 10

Long-Term Filipina Relationships: Planning Your Future Together

Navigate conservative dating expectations, visa considerations, relocation decisions, and long-distance relationship realities.

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Building a Long-Term Filipina Relationship

A long-term Filipina relationship requires patience, planning, and realistic expectations. Filipinas generally are conservative, and most will not rush into sexual activity with you. Of course, some, especially in bigger cities like Manila and Cebu who have adopted Western feminist ideas, will be promiscuous and have no shortage of foreign guys to choose from.

Women who move too fast

Those women will usually let you down and stray behind your back or just get what they can from you, get bored, and leave you and go on to the next guy. If casual hookups like that are your thing, that is your choice.

Making long-term plans

If you find a Filipina you like, and she likes you, and you want her to be a long-term partner or wife, you have to make plans about coming back to the Philippines after your holiday is over, or arrange getting a visa for her to come to your country to live.

The visa challenge

The problem with bringing her over to your country is it can be a lengthy and expensive process, and she will also be influenced to some degree by the feminist ideas in the West.

The divorce rate in the West is about 50% on average, and over 75% of divorces are initiated by women. That is because they can get the house, alimony, and child support (if they have children together) from the husband after only being with him for two years in most countries.

The attraction risk

Usually, the Filipina is a lot younger than the man. If a Filipina comes to your country and she is relatively attractive, she will be seen as exotic and hit on by other men in her age bracket, especially if she works in an office, factory, or retail shop.

The success rate of marriages between Filipinas and foreign guys when they bring them back to their country could be better. With Thai women, the stats show around 80% of them who get married and move to another country end up breaking up with the guy. It is likely this would be a similar case with Filipinas when they relocate to the man’s country.

The boredom factor

If you do not let her work, she will probably get very bored, especially being away from her family, and she will more than likely create drama rather than be bored to death, which is usually the start of the end of a relationship.

That often happens with Filipinas who marry Western farmers who live in low-population rural areas.

Moving to the Philippines

The alternative is for you to move to the Philippines, but you can only do that if you have the money to live there, as you cannot get a job easily there as a foreigner.

You could start a business there or an internet business, but if it is unsuccessful, how would you survive? Most guys that move there usually do so when they retire and live off their pension unless they are already wealthy.

Long-distance relationship challenges

The other problem you will have is that long-distance relationships rarely last, especially if you have only met once or twice, and the guy’s next visit will not be for six months or a year.

Again, if she is relatively attractive, she would be hit on by other guys in her vicinity, and other guys would hit on her on Facebook, too. Plus, you would be seeing other attractive Filipinas on Facebook, so it can often be that the guy finds someone else they like, and they lose interest in her.

The multiple-visit strategy

The only other option is to visit her two or three times a year if affordable, and work out how to make the income to stay in the Philippines permanently, or he will have to wait until he can retire there.

Build strong foundations

Use FilipinaMeet to build deep emotional connections through consistent video chat and messaging before making major life decisions like visas or relocation.