Hubby has “No Other Woman”

This post about “No Other Woman” is long overdue so I thought about not doing it at all. But I can’t let the days pass without writing something about this Tagalog movie because I could pretty well relate with Cristine Reyes, a.k.a. “Charmaine”, who played as the cheated wife.Ooops, don’t get me wrong folks, my husband’s not cheating on me. He’s a good guy . But something in my bygone past reminded me of the same story of seemingly everlasting love which was tarnished and broken because of another woman. As someone who loves with its noblest meaning, being cheated is like being stabbed a thousand times. I guess that explains why Charmaine had the same decision I had more than a decade ago — letting go.

In the movie, Charmaine is a pretty young wife who does nothing but to patiently wait for her husband to come home while she does everything that a traditional wife has to do — cook, finish a crochet, and please her hubby, Derek Ramsey a.k.a. Ram. Well, she’s obviously rich and educated, but she opted to be — as Anne Curtise, a.k.a. Kara said — a pathetic boring wife, all because she loves him so much.

The husband, Ram, tried to make himself believe that no one else could get his attention away from his lovely wife. But as he went about his furniture business, he saw new faces and bumped with the likes of Kara. He struggled to keep his promise to his wife, but fell prey to his own fears of being like his father, whom he hated so much.

Meanwhile, the “other woman”, Kara, is a young and sophisticated lady who certainly knows how to make her presence felt. New York-bred, she is an empowered lass who exercises her right to practice her profession and be of use in nation-building. She accidentally met Ram, whom she thought wasn’t hitched, and fell in love with him.

After careful observation, let me focus on what I deduced from the scenes of the movie. There are Filipina wives who lose their individuality once they get married. They just become their husband’s shadow. In the process of loving their husbands they lose themselves. If this is left unattended, it would lead to a wife’s misery of losing her love for herself.

Well, of course that is if we’d let this happen. If loving someone means forgetting yourself, then I guess there isn’t real love there at all.