So You Wanna Love a Filipina?
Let’s get one thing clear from the start: when you love a Filipina, you’re not just signing up for romantic dinner dates and sweet text messages—you’re entering a whole new dimension of joy, drama, rice consumption, and unmatched love. Love a Filipina and you’ll soon understand that it’s a full-sensory, full-emotion, full-family experience. It’s not a phase. It’s a forever mood.
Filipinas are beautiful, strong-willed, deeply loving, and packed with personality. You’ll be roasted, hugged, fed, and cheered on—sometimes all at once. And if you’re lucky (and ready), here are 30 reasons to Love a Filipina, plus a few more you didn’t even know you needed.
This is my response to an article titled How To Love a Filipina written by my good friend, Eduardo Maresca. Mabuhay ka, brother!
1. Love a Filipina for Her Heart
Love a Filipina and you’ll discover that loyalty runs deep in her veins. Her love is protective, passionate, and pure. Once you’re in her heart, you’re staying there—with or without your consent. Kidding. Kind of.
2. Her Family is Your Family
Filipinas are big on family. When you love a Filipina, you’re also loving her mom, dad, titas, titos, cousins, neighbors, family dog, and sometimes even her barangay captain. Family gatherings are never boring when everyone brings a dish and their loud opinions.
3. Acts of Love Are Served on a Plate
Food is love. When she hands you a plate of adobo, that’s her way of saying she wants to marry you—or at least she didn’t poison it. Don’t ignore the power of ulam as a form of affection.
4. Love a Filipina Who Says “I Love You” with Lumpia
She might not say it every minute, but she’ll make you lumpia like her life depends on it. And honestly, that’s more romantic. Love a Filipina and you’ll gain five pounds of love in spring roll form.
Right, Grayson?
5. Love a Filipina for Her Sass
She’s got the kind of wit that’ll make you question your own IQ. But you’ll laugh while being humbled, so it’s okay. Sass is her seasoning.
6. The Side Eye is an Art Form
She won’t need to say anything. One look and you’ll know—you done goofed. But love a Filipina, and she’ll forgive you. Eventually. Maybe. If there’s cake.
7. Arguments are Fiestas with Feelings
She’ll argue, cry, cook for you, and then argue again. Love a Filipina, and you’re always in for an emotional buffet. There’s never a dull moment—just dramatic ones with background music.
8. Love a Filipina for Her Cooking
Your taste buds will never recover. Kare-kare, sinigang, halo-halo—she’s a one-woman food truck. Your stomach will love a Filipina almost as much as your heart does.
9. Ice Cream Tubs = Food Containers
You’ll never eat ice cream from an actual ice cream container again. It’s now sinigang.
10. Love a Filipina Who Can Cook AND Eat
She’s not afraid to devour a whole lechon. And neither should you be. Love a Filipina who’s proud of her appetite and knows that joy is best served on a plate.
11. Love a Filipina Anywhere in the World
Whether she’s in Dubai, Toronto, or Tokyo—she shines. Her passport may change, but her heart remains pure Pinay. She’ll thrive no matter the timezone.
12. OFW Energy: Homesick but Never Hopeless
She might miss home, but she’ll build one with you wherever you are. Love a Filipina who makes home wherever she goes.
13. Fluent in English, Sarcasm, and Love
She’ll switch from Taglish to affection to full-on teasing in seconds. Keep up or get left behind. Love a Filipina and you’ll become multilingual in emotion.
14. Love a Filipina Online
Her online skills are unmatched. Late-night calls, good morning texts, random memes—she’s a digital love wizard. Expect sudden video calls just to see your face.
15. LDR Queen
Distance means nothing when you love a Filipina who will stay loyal, clingy, and committed from 7,000 miles away. She makes the impossible feel easy.
16. Her Phone is a Shrine of You
Screenshots of your cute texts. Ugly photos of you. Secret videos. Love a Filipina who documents the love story, unfiltered. Her phone memory may be full, but so is her heart.
17. Love a Filipina’s Beauty
She’s radiant. Morena, mistisa, chinita—every Filipina has that glow that blinds you (in a good way). And she knows exactly how to use that glow to her advantage.
18. She Knows She’s More Than Just a Pretty Face
Brains, ambition, empathy. Love a Filipina who can break hearts and glass ceilings. She’s beauty and the brains.
19. From Heels to Tsinelas, She Slays
She’ll go from gala to palengke and still outshine everyone. Love a Filipina who can do both—glam and grind, tiis ganda and tamang chill.
20. Love a Filipina for Her Hustle
She works 2 jobs, studies part-time, helps her family, and still manages to FaceTime you for 2 hours. Superwoman found crying. Love a Filipina and you’ll find yourself inspired daily.
21. She’ll Build You Up
Supportive is her middle name. Love a Filipina who becomes your loudest cheerleader—and sometimes coach, too. She’ll clap for you even when you don’t believe in yourself.
22. She’ll Call You Out
You’ll never be the same after a Filipina calls out your BS—with love. Love a Filipina who challenges you to grow. She’s got receipts and emotional intelligence.
23. Love a Filipina Who Sings
Every karaoke night becomes a concert. She has theme songs for every stage of your relationship. And yes, you’re required to duet.
24. Even if She Can’t Sing, She WILL Sing
Volume over pitch. Love a Filipina who sings with her heart (and diaphragm). Your ears will survive, your soul will thank you.
25. Love a Filipina Who Defends Her People
Talk trash about her loved ones and watch her go full teleserye protagonist. She will fight. Elegantly. Love a Filipina who knows how to draw lines with love.
26. She’ll Tell It Like It Is
Blunt? Sometimes. Wrong? Never. Love a Filipina for her honesty—and her sassy delivery. She’s your truth serum with a cute accent.
27. Your Personal Life Coach
She will fix your posture, your attitude, your wardrobe—and your broken heart. Love a Filipina who will upgrade your whole life, unsolicited.
28. Love a Filipina During Christmas
She starts playing Christmas songs in September. She brings you gifts, food, and excessive fairy lights. It’s not just a holiday—it’s a season.
29. Simbang Gabi Goals
She’ll wake you up at 4 AM and drag you to church. You’ll hate it at first. Then you’ll love her more for it. Love a Filipina who loves traditions.
30. She’s Your Compass
Lost? Confused? Love a Filipina who will lead you home—emotionally, spiritually, and literally with Waze. She’s your north star with a power bank.
31. She’s Emotionally Fluent
She knows how to cry, laugh, rage, and love—often at the same time. Love a Filipina who owns every feeling and expresses it with passion.
32. She’s Fashion-Savvy on a Budget
Love a Filipina who can make an outfit from Divisoria look like it came from Milan. She has taste and creativity, plus discount skills.
33. She Can Turn a Space into a Home
With a few plants, a cross-stitch from her tita, and the scent of fried garlic, your apartment becomes a love nest. Love a Filipina who nests like a pro.
34. She’s Incredibly Resourceful
She can budget, DIY, cook, clean, and get your barangay clearance in under an hour. Love a Filipina who knows how to get things done.
35. She’s a Softie at Heart
Behind the sass and strength is a woman who loves teddy bears, cheesy lines, and surprise hugs. Love a Filipina who’s both fierce and fluffy.
36. She Values Respect
Respect is her love language. Love a Filipina who treats you with kindness and expects the same. You’ll learn manners just being near her.
37. She Has Big Dreams
Love a Filipina who dreams of more—more for herself, her family, and maybe even you. She’s not content with less, and you shouldn’t be either.
38. She’ll Make You Laugh
Her humor? Chef’s kiss. Witty, weird, wholesome, and often wildly inappropriate. Love a Filipina who keeps you smiling through it all.
39. She’s Always Ready to Travel
She’ll pack light, plan hard, and take the best selfies. Love a Filipina who turns every trip into an adventure and every destination into a memory.
40. She’ll Love You With Everything She Has
When you love a Filipina, you get the full package—laughter, loyalty, lumpia, and love. She’ll give you her time, her energy, her heart. And she’ll ask for only one thing: your sincerity.
Conclusion: Love a Filipina—and Mean It
To love a Filipina is to love a universe of emotions, laughter, and adobo. It’s not for the faint-hearted or the commitment-phobic. But for those ready to receive—and return—a love that’s deep, playful, resilient, and true, loving a Filipina is the best decision you’ll ever make.
So love a Filipina for her strength, her humor, her family, her food, her beauty, her wit, her karaoke voice, her tsinelas, her drama, her dreams, and above all—her heart. And if you ever forget why you chose her? She’ll lovingly remind you… probably through a meme, a plate of food, or a speech during your wedding reception.
Love a Filipina, and you’ll never want to unlove her.
