The Philippines is home to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who are tagged as the country’s modern-day heroes. Ironically, they are far from home. They work in distant countries with the aim to provide a better future for their families.
Poverty, lack of work opportunities, low-paying jobs are some of the reasons why Filipinos go abroad. In 2018, the Survey on Overseas Filipinos (SOF) as conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed there are 2.3 million registered Overseas Contract Workers (OCWs) worldwide.
In search of greener pastures, many OFWs endure the separation. Luckily, communications become much easier with the aid of social media. Families can talk real-time using their cell phones or gadgets. Facebook, messenger among others have become efficient applications to lessen homesickness.
OFWs also find comfort in the friendships formed abroad. Unfortunately, some friendships become detrimental to their marital relationships back home. Adultery is a form of infidelity that causes OFW families apart.
Many OFWs have succumbed to temptation forgetting the ultimate reason why they are there in the first place — their families. Infidelity has become an OFW’s armor against homesickness. Some OFWs enter coterminous relationships. Meaning their relationship is as good as their work contract, it ends when they return to the Philippines. Some of them do not return to their families anymore.
Situations like these pinched our hearts. It is unfortunate that OFW families go through this home-wrecking experience. We cannot point accusing fingers on who is to blame why these things happened. We can only surmise the reasons behind such actions.
There may be other reasons why OFWs commit adultery. Whether they are valid or not, adultery is punishable under the Philippine law.
Not only that, adultery destroys the very essence of why people work overseas: the family. The mere mention of the family should be enough reason to stop.
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