“The Legal Wife”: A Sad Reality!

                                                           

          

To tell you honestly, I was never fond of watching evening TV series, may it be from the Kapamilya or the Kapuso network, especially those unrealistic, fictional characters and nevertheless less appealing situations that they are dealing with. Maybe because they just can’t get into my nerves, thus staying away from my interests as a viewer. Yes, entertaining minions is their business, but I still can’t find the reason to be fascinated to the stuff.

Not until one of those programs had successfully caught my inner thoughts, not because it’s busting me, but because it’s more realistic, and I’m sure many Filipinos can relate with it. No, I’m not referring to “Ikaw Lamang”—it’s quite old and tragic, yet I find it nice anyway—I’m pertaining to “The Legal Wife” from the Kapamilya network (not to be biased to the other one). At first, I found it simple, like any other TV programs that consume your precious time, yet on the latter part of the show, I felt stirred, indeed moved by the dialogues and was as well affected by the real life situations that the characters were trying to portray, which they did successfully. From then on, I can’t make my day without sitting in front of our 21 inch LCD Panasonic TV set, watching the series.

Yes, the characters are appealing, good enough to depict the role as a matter of fact, but what awakened me the most were the situations–they are just so pure and genuine like the writers are experiencing the whole ‘affair thing’, the dialogues are so real that it seemed unimaginable you just can’t stop hooking up with it. Also by watching it, you might as well understand the story behind every hidden lies, the courage to be a seductive mistress, the strength to be an unfaithful husband, and the innocence of a wife that hides the doubt because of her unbiased love. So whom do we have to put all the blame on? To the lonely mistress? To the cheating husband? Or to the innocent wife? Hard to tell isn’t it?

But we have to face it! We may understand their individual stories, but we can never hide the fact that this is happening, that illegal romantic affairs are just around the corner—it might even be too late, but probably, someone you know might either be the unfaithful or the unfortunate. Hence, The Legal Wife is just a representation of one of the most common social adversary of this country. It is just a representation of the reality that we are consumed by lies, governed by mistrust, and ruled by unfaithfulness and temptations. I’m even waiting for the statistics of the broken family rate of the country if this can’t be stopped in the worst case scenario.   

This is a very sad truth, and we can do nothing but to accept the consequences of the wrong move. But we could at least do something to decrease the probable rate of this concern through knowing ourselves better, approaching people better, thus results for you choose the right person better than anybody else, and not just choose because you were provoked to do so. Let us do our part and make the correct move towards other people and avoid the wrath of social adversaries.

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