Basta nga, hwag pahuhuli kung ayaw pa pahuli.
What is a woman to do?
MUST we always have the short end of it as Miss Resilient and POG1ng correctly pointed out?
I am sure both these astute people will tell you there is always always always an EXCEPTION to the rule, to the general reality of it all.
Walang mods? Baka makalusot my real cuento here.
Hindi ba we once upon a time had a President who had a mistress?
She did not give a heck people knew, she was so high profile ... and nobody dared call her kabit to her face. Nobody dared be disrespectful to her, to her face. LOL Why? Coz she had MONEY.
Medyo nabato bato ako ng mga titas and my mom when in my youth, narinig ko sila remarking on this woman's kapalmuks tapos como forever nga tsismosa ako -- I shared my thoughts: Este, what is she doing that your husbands are not doing? She has money, she knows what she wants -- bakit hindi nyo masabi -- hayaan mo na, lalaki kasi eh.
Dapat pala ang statement, kasi we have all progressed di ba LOL -- hayaan na, may pera naman sya eh.
From that time on, na determine ko that what will keep a woman away from Scarlet Branding: maharot, malandi, gold digger, linta, pokpok, cheap, etc etc etc -- vs the tolerable: liberated, headstrong, wild, spoiled, etc.. is HAVING ONE'S OWN MONEY.
If I have my own money, and I need no man's money to support my lifestyle -- aha! our society with all its morality and all -- will even pander to you. Will look at you like just a woman spoiled and insistent on getting what makes her happy.... think of that mistress of the ex-Pres. Was she a better wife/mother/person than Che? Not necessarily.
But between the kangkungan and Urdaneta village + Dasma + Forbes -- is having one's own money, and needing no man's finances.
In Phil society, IMHO -- pera pera lang yan.
Basta, hwag pahuli kung ayaw pa pahuli.