Archive for May, 2007
Torn Between Two, Satisfied With Neither
I AM 25 and I’ve been married for the past four years to my husband, who is 36.
My husband hardly brings any money home and I’ve had to support him and pay all our debts. I’ve spoken to him about this but there’s no progress.
I consider myself attractive and charming. Being in the customer […]
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Rise Above Betrayals
I WAS married for 23 years. For some time, I had known that my ex-husband slept around.
I finally told him to leave when my daughters told me about his affair with my friend, who has four children. They had been staying together for the last three years.
The point here is, what do we teach […]
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Shelf the self-pity
Two years ago, I got to know a man, a foreigner who came to Malaysia to chase his dream and build his business here. When I got to know him, he was a very caring and understanding person.
Unfortunately for me, he was in a relationship with another woman who had an established business and […]
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No worries, no joy either
WHILE reflecting on the past year, I was shocked to realise that I was not happy with life in general. “Why am I here?” I asked myself. “What do I want in life?”
I am in my 40s, have a healthy family and a stable, medium-level income. I have enough assets to retire now. Most […]
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Marriage has become a sad sham
MY husband is a high-ranking bank executive. He is 41 and I am 36. We have been together for 18 years and have two daughters, aged six and three.
Throughout our marriage, regardless whether I was working or had become a housewife, my husband expected me to make sure that everything was in perfect order. […]
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