Learn my HONEST OPINION after 6 months  

I think, Rob, one of your last comments was the one that crystallized everything for me, when Chrissy was asking you if you could say it's nice to retire here in the Philippines: "I'm happy to be here with YOU." Yup, a match with a woman like Chrissy would make ANYWHERE worth living. Period. A partner who's willing to grow a relationship based on love and mutual respect, who's thoughtful and mature enough to know herself and to know what it will take for her to commit, to take chances. So the last 5 minutes of this video covered a lot of ground. I'd say, people can do all the homework and research -- that'll help keep you safe. But to succeed in life, really that takes two people with "the right stuff" coming together. Again, congrats to you both, and thanks for trying to show us the ropes.

After being here a year , my advice for American men considering coming here to meet a Fillipina, is to have patience and patience is not being submissive but avoid confrontation in every relationship professional and personal, disagree without being disagreeable 😊

Both of you are well spoken and appear to be comfortable and happy with each other. You make a nice looking couple. I wish you many years of happiness together.

Great interview! Chrissy is great interviewer. I got a lot out of it. I have been there a number of times and the best part are the people, the spirit of the people, the joy they have, the stress less lifestyle, the lower cost of living, amazing natural beauty almost unmatched anywhere in the world, and the beautifully young Filipinas. I’m not sure I can actually live there. I am an adaptable person. I’ve been to China alone many times since 1989. On my trips to the Phillipines I have met amazing Filipinas that could be great partners. That was easy (no online dating for me). It’s the reality of getting around and things that are not smooth many times a week. I took the bus from BGC to Tagatay and it took 6 hours! It was supposed to be 2. That’s just one example. Security guards telling me wrong directions. Understanding under the surface what is really going on with people. It may be my final destination. I’m not sure yet. Malaysia, Thailand, Siem Reap, Ubud, Da Lat, Da Nang, and other destinations in SE Asia are very tempting. I explored beyond RU-vidr recommendations and explored myself. I found English spoken in all these countries. It will be the adventure of my life after a lifetime of successes in every way. I agree with deciding to expatriate. If I hadn’t made bold decisions my entire life this would be hard. Thank you again for your efforts!

Chrissy presses to get more honestly disclosive answers from Rob. Rob gives refreshingly honest answers -- and Chrissy adds depth by the way she follow ups her initial questions.

So true Rob! I was clueless of the passive aggressive nature of my Chinese wife! She was unhappy and I had no clue! Eventually it led to our divorce. Try again with a Filipina someday! 🙏🙏

I watch Philippines based channels despite my girlfriend not being a Filipina. There are more Philippines based channels than most other SE Asian countries.

Rob, you are an inspiration for me. Thank you.

I've been here a year with my Fillipina and honestly i was naive like you about locals accepting age difference relationships, believe me their is chismis , gossip among the locals and your Fillipina hears it but doesn't tell you to spare your feelings

Wow. Very informative, recently found the channel!!!

I’m glad you mentioned your diet because I am the same way. I don’t like eating the garbage that is in the food supply. I like eating fresh foods that are not prepackaged or processed foods! Good to know there are diet options there. Plan to move there in a couple of months!

So interesting. I’ve watched for awhile and came to see you guys as big shots 🎉 And here today just vulnerable. Very grateful guys! I have many doubts and you touched on many.

Brilliant episode, great work by both of you.

Hi Chrissy I'm married to a bueatyful filipina from the province. She's from Sibonga Cebu. I was 60 and she was 30 with a 4 year old girl. That was 6 1/2 years ago. We traveled Asia and South and Central America. I married her last year in Costa Rica. We're working on getting visas for USA now. She's the best thing that ever happened in my life. You remind me of her. Your partner is a lucky man. You seem to make a great couple. I wish you and your son all the best! Good luck.

Yes, this was an especially valuable video. Those were all very good questions from Chrissy. I think some of the very first words which should be said by the man online is that he will be sending no money, and that he will plan to meet in person. This is a sieve for the man to filter out scammers and it is assurance for the female that there could be a future for her to pursue. I also agree with a reasonable amount given to her family without feeling being taken advantage of. You two seem to have struck a very nice balance in your lives. I think one of the keys to your relationship is that both of you have something in which you may share and enjoy together. Chrissy has a certain air of contentment in life, which I believe comes from one of her creative passions in life, and of which she has great talent in…her singing. She knows how to make herself happy, and so, has no unrealistic expectations of demanding that her man make her happy. Your relationship gives hope to others, not merely through your words, but through our eyes. Everything seems to be right in your interaction with each other in intonation and through all the unspoken cues given. With your new home, everything seems to be in place for a very fruitful and deeply satisfying relationship. Again, a very good video.

Your partner is gold. She is a real beauty.

Really good vid and much prefer these personal experience type ones…….the story of the journey for you both is inspiring and I’ve found things like pop culture are common interests that are great 😊

This interview: direct, heart-warming, sincere, thoughtful, informative, comfortably paced, respectful, and finally, continually reassured me that there still is good to be found in this world. Thank you both for being who (and what) each of you have made of yourselves. I love you as a couple.

You guys make an amazing couple. I really enjoy your informative content.

Yeap, The Graduate is reaching back. LOL, I feel you.

This is my first time watching your channel and a new subscriber...... This is a very good video and Chrissy did an excellent job of asking the right questions, she's also a very beautiful woman so congratulations on getting a beautiful as well as smart partner.... I find myself getting ready to make 65, single and keeping my options open while wondering where I want to go from here....

It's amazing how you guys connect and great videos you have😊

Very nice interview. You and I are similar temperament and age. I tried Philippines a couple times. Loved the people but could not take the bad food, uncomfortable transportation, bad air, typhoons destroying infrastructure, trash and garbage, noise, and lately high prices. I think the northern Luzon mountains would have worked for me, but then a typhoon destroyed the roads and so could not follow my plan to motorbike the region. . . Colombia in the higher mountain cities has proved ideal. Really easy to eat healthy without spending much, modern, no bad weather, close to and cheap to fly to US, great country roads for mountain biking, very friendly people. I'd like to find a woman like Crissy, maybe I'll import one to South America, LOL.

Beautiful lady!

omg She is so Beautiful your as lucky as I am.

I'm a retired Financial Executive, world traveler (86 countries and all seven continents), widowed for seven years, 79, In reasonably good health. Similar mental attitude as yours. Do you think it's too late for me to find someone like Chrissy? I'm not interested in someone who wants my child. I'll be more than happy to provide financial support to any child a partner may have, but like you, I don't want to support all of the downstream relatives.

Great Interview.

The only age gap for me is 59 and 56 is I dont want my wife to die before me. I dont want her childern to die before me. The My 3 Sons all have good jobs and are older with there own famileys. + They love me so much as I love them. Respect is so much. They know how much I love there Mother. I will make sure SHE is always aken care of.

At big family gatherings you will be ignored by her family while they talk in their language infront of you

Very good vlog my friend but your woman would need to work a total of 10 total years to be eligible for Social Security and her payout would be very paltry because the formula is based on 35 total years of employment. 25 years of zeros would be calculated into her payout. OUCH. Have you considered just contributing monthly into the Philippines Social Security system for her ? There are several calculators on line that estimate what a potential SS monthly payout could be if you wish to bring her to America but you also need to factor the cost of Medicare B and supplements for medical , dental and prescriptions. I have my degree in Economics so I have a tendency to obsess about these kinds of things.

I am in New. Mexico and I relate to what u say.

Excellent video

I doubt Rob is a fool like I am. I am always happy to discuss my feelings for my pinay. I don't believe that would make her happy though. HA! Making babies concerns me too. Is having a baby at my age a responsible thing for me to do at my age? I doubt it, but she wants it. Watch us both end up in the hospital at the same time. [joke] Rob will always love you, but I think he, like me, just can not understand what you lovely ladies see in us. Rob is right. The women we love look much more beautiful than the pinays around them. I'm at 16:48 in the interview and I find that I like Rob! I don't like anyone, so I'm shocked! [joke] In what part of the Philippines did these bad things happen to him? Cebu is where my pinay wants me to go to meet her... Are you, Rob, older than Chrissy's parents? That is something I'll have to face. Great video! Thank you for sharing your lives with us.

You mentioned that maybe you and Chrissy would move to the States for five years so she could get social security. My understanding is when you put on her finger then nine months later she would be eligible for Social Security Survivor benefits and if you adopt her child then they would also get survivor benefits after you die until they are 18. If you and Chrissy are married for ten years then at 62 she would also get half your SS benefits even if you are still hanging around at 97 (I figure maybe, just maybe I have till 87 at most). So come back to the States if you want to live here, but not needed for SS benefits. She would need to work a good many years to make more in SS benefits than half your total. If she teaches here then she might be on a pension plan which has its own benefits, but complexity depending on the state, with SS. Check with a tax firm that deals with expats to be sure.

I am 59 and my girlfriend is an OFW 56 My Beautiful Brown Sugar.

Thank you for your kindness. I did last year. I may soon.

Your girlfriend is so sweet…nice interview 😊

Is Chrissy an expat widow? How is her English so good. Seems like she has lived with an expat for years.

I am really enjoying your RU-vids.

Great video! I'm 31 mins in and I believe I just heard you say that Chrissy can work for 5 years in the U.S. and be eligible for Social Security - is this correct? I was thinking if I'm fortunate enough to meet a Filipina I would bring her back to the U.S. if I could so she would be eligible for Spousal benefit once I was gone. I need to research this topic in more detail so that if I am fortunate enough to find the one for me I can leave her as well off as possible if and when I expectedly go before she does.

Thank you for that very informative video. I have a lot in common with you. I'm 66 years old, have 3 kids an 6 grandchildren. I live in Europe and am searching for a nice filipina preferable from Mindanao. The only difference is, i don't want a huge age gap. So i think it's harder to find a woman that fits perfectly. But i don't give up.

Like me you think the family is accepting, they tolerate you because you elevated their daughter out of poverty and are available to help them financially

I really like Antipolo above Manilia.

How are you eating clean in Philippines? Are you cooking mostly?

Dude, scored big points with the part about, then I saw you and you were so much more beautiful than all the others. I thought for a moment you were going to do the open mouth, insert foot action there. I will be relocating to Cebu in Jan 2025. I had made up my mind a couple years ago. Now I have met someone, so it is an added bonus.

How do you like living in Cayagan De Oro ? I play a lot of pickekball, do they have pickel ball in CDO?? I am looking at Brentwood estates or Xavier subdivision , something in the upper elevation.

maybe it's just my personal experience, but there isn't much difference of "feel" in dating women anywhere from ~26-45 on a personal compatibility perspective socially. Most people have completed the majority of their adult maturation right around the 28 year old mark and they aren't going to change significantly. The only meaningful difference tends to in short to intermediate goals, like having children. For that reason I've never felt like dating a woman in her mid to late 20s was any different than dating someone more my age. Having said that, there does seem to be a lot of maturation that happens between that 18-24 age range were I personally felt a little uncomfortable dating that young. But maybe if you're in your 40s or early 50s and still want to have kids (and not raise someone elses kid) that's just kind of what you have to work through, because it's pretty rare to find a Filipina past 24 than doesn't have a child.

Does 75yr old have chance?

Who would you use to find a house like yours. any recommendations??

I still searching for a flipina young lady but most then of three after two days, they want money. Even some of set who are working want western union its difficult to find right one

Did you have any problems from friends or family?The diet is would be hard. What are the gyms like?

Another question. Buy a house or build ? It is cheaper to build if you have a good contractor , more bang for the buck.

Did You spend in Hawaii? Stink eye. Hehe

So, what you're saying is that Philippines is not Keto friendly? 😁

Chrissy has Japanese heritage ?

What is your age gap?

Hi guys ,,, I just found your channel and subscribed … like the content very much ,,, thank you I’m coming for my first visit in February for up to 3 months … researching where I want to live … I retired early and chose the Philippines 🇵🇭 as my retirement country to live …. I will be traveling around the Philippines 🇵🇭 during this time … I hope to meet you both …. Andrew , Nashville, Tennessee

I personally think you are wasting your time and energy trying to get your children and fammily to accept Chrissy, you love her , it's truly irrelevant if they don't accept her 😊

Rob, are you guys planning to have child? It is not impossible or you guys tslked about of not having kid anymore. I like the idea of you saying not to be an ATM of chrissy's family and son. But i think for that thought to happen, Chrissy needs to work. It is good that you give her allowance, but i tell you that will not be enough. You have to let her work. What if your relationship with her will not work? Just playing devils advocate here...many vloggers down there have so many unsuccessful story. By the way, filipinos can speak Taglish, fluent english it depends where you at in the Phils or broken English compare in Thailand.

So funny how all you old vloggers spend so much time trying to convince everyone the girl isn’t with you for the money. Lol