Mix Marriage
Couple of months ago when I went shopping at one of the ‘average malls’ here in Jakarta and in between trying on some blouses the very helpful sales associate asked me something that no one…had ever asked me before. “Are you married to a bule*?” My hands stopped mid-air while handing her back some of the blouses I just tried on. “Uhm, yes. Why?” Someone ask you that, you just have to know why and I knew DH was at the play area with Lil’ A. “Oh, it’s just your style…” she hesitated for a moment. “You just looked like that type of girl a bule will hook up with.” *insert dropped jaws here…* Of course she got me more .....
Musings
photo credit: Robboguy An old friend from college chatted with me a couple of days ago asking one of the ‘famous’ questions that us Indonesian women who married to white men often hears. “Do you know a single bule* guy?” Apparently she has a friend, let’s name her “Betty” who just broke up with a white guy here and that girl is so brokenhearted but not wanting to date Indonesians. Now, I’m not going to attack that girl for her taste in dating white guys because I too had actually stopped dating locals’ years before I met DH. It got nothing to do with the ‘trending lifestyle’ as some would put it, for me it’s a matter of personal choices. .....
