1. How long did the courtship last?

"The courtship last for 4 years."

2. What are the things you see in her/him that made you want to marry him/her?

"He is handsome, polite and respectful."

3. What the options of your parents when they meet him or her? How did you deal with it?

" At first they doubted my husband, they strongly suggest to find me another guy but I convinced them
that Lito is a good person and I still marry him despite the disagreement of my parents."

4. What are some of the biggest adjustments that you made from being single to married?

"The biggest adjustments that I made are minimizing the bonding time with my friends and focus my life
in serving my husband."

5. What were your goals for your marriage when you were still engaged? We're you able to realized
them?

"When I am still engaged my plan was to build our own house and to educate my children, though I'm
not able to fulfill my plan to give education to some of my children because of financial crisis but I'm still
thankful because they grew as a good person."

6. Does religion plays an important role in your marriage?

"Yes, religion plays an important role in our married life because it keeps us on track about God."

7. What advise would you give to your children about finding a mate?

"My advice to them would be they should be ready to face the life as a married person because it was
not an easy one. This is a crucial stage where in each of the partner should be responsible, they should
have strong will to avoid the temptations in life that could destroy their family."

8. What are the things in your marriage that makes you happy?

"The things that makes me happy are my children, seeing them happy with their own family and also
seeing my grandchildren."

9. What was your saddest time in your relationship as a couple?

"The saddest time in our relationship was seeing my children starving because there are times that my
husband has no money for us to buy some food. He works as a construction worker and there are times
that he has no duty."

10. How would you describe your relationship as a couple.

"Our relationship is strong because we have the courage to overcome our problems in life. Though it is
unavoidable that we are fighting with each other due to misunderstanding but still we manage to solve
it and continue our responsibility as husband and wife."

11. How did you resolve conflicts as a couple?

"We manage to solve our conflicts by being honest and communicating with each other."

12. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your marriage?

"The strengths in our marriage are love, faith and joy while the weaknesses are our own vices."

13. What are the struggles and challenges in your marriage?

"The struggles and challenges in our marriage are of course lack of money because there are lot of
expenses in our house and in school. How to eliminate our vices so that our children would not imitate
us."

14. What is the biggest problem that you encountered in your married life?

"The biggest problem that I encountered in my married life is seeing my husband coming home being
drunk because he lost his temper while he is in that state. Sometimes he hurt me physically."

15. What do you think God is doing in your marriage?

"I think God strengthen our relationship because though there were times that we fight with each other
due to misunderstanding but we still managed to maintain our relationship."