Having a foreign boyfriend automatically raises the social status of a typical Filipino lady, especially if she comes from provinces where poverty exists and where to get the next meal is a daily question.

Back in your country, you may just be an ordinary employee earning an average salary and always trying to pay your bills and make ends meet, but to most Filipino ladies, you are rich. Having you as a boyfriend is a status symbol and her friends and neighbors will envy her. No matter how poor you say you are, to her you are still rich. This could be due to the fact that in terms of material things, daily necessities that you take for granted are considered a luxury in the Philippines.

Take your car for example. In your country, cars are a necessity, but in the Philippines it is a different matter. Cars are a luxury and only upper class families cannot afford them. Even small appliances like washing machines, rice cookers, sandwich makers, dishwashers, food blenders, oven toasters, and other push-button appliances that you take for granted as “must-haves” may be considered out of reach for ordinary pockets of average. Philippines.

So she has professed her love for you, but you told her you have no money? This is her chance to prove if her Filipino lady of hers really loves him or just sees it as a visa to go to other countries and eventually lift her and her family out of poverty.

Unfortunately there is a percentage of Filipina ladies who are very smart and business minded and if you tell them you have no money they will automatically turn their back on you and look for other prospects. Women like these aren’t interested in a lifetime commitment to a man and it pays to know how to spot them early on to avoid trouble, heartache and, yes, expense.

For these women, your age and physical attributes suddenly matter and they would decide they can’t live with someone like you. They dreamed of a luxurious life in a land flowing with milk and honey and these women are the ones to avoid.

Continue your search for your perfect Filipino bride if you are really that determined. She’s just somewhere, waiting for the right time in the right place. Remember, though, that she may not be factory-made perfect wife material (those things only exist in your mind), but it’s up to you to make the best of her.

For a Filipina woman who loves you, your economic status in life does not matter. If she loves you, she will be there to help and support you. She is adaptable and she can accept what is there without complaining.