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Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Gwen ‘at peace’ being loveless on Valentine’s Day
As VALENTINE’S day is being celebrated today, Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia failed to dodge one of the most frequently whispered questions about her: How is her love life?
Garcia laughed and said she would just send flowers to her parents today and head off to the southern towns to distribute insurance for the poor and kits for barangay health workers.
She will also launch in Barili town the Capitol project to propagate bananas, with the theme, “Bisag saging basta loving.”
But seeing that reporters were serious about the question, Garcia admitted she no longer believes in romantic love. She was married in 1978 at the age of 22, but got separated in 2000. Her marriage was annulled in 2002.
“You get to a point when you start to hesitate and become more choosy, more picky, knowing how easily what they call love can ignite and just as easily consume itself, disappear into a wisp of nothingness, and only ashes remain,” she said.
“Up to now, I think there is one song that best describes our feeble attempt at so called eternal love that I believe does not exist: ‘How do you keep the music playing? How do you make it last?” Garcia said.
Not ideal
She thinks that getting entangled in personal commitments would not be ideal if one is handling the highest position in the province.
“I suppose it’s very difficult if I had a partner. (The) male ego easily bruises and when you can’t help but be the focus of attention, that could give too many occasions for rough spots in a relationship,” she said.
Moreover, Garcia said that women who have “such huge responsibilities and occupy positions of authority may be intimidating for others.”
She lamented that her being single has subjected her to many speculations about any man who comes close to her, be it a town or city mayor, businessman and what-have-you.
“Maybe these speculations wouldn’t have been raised had I been married.”
After a day’s visit to several towns under her supervision, when weariness sinks in, Garcia said, she lies on her bed still thinking of the next day’s schedule and the major projects that are on the pipeline. The last dream that she had was still about work, she laughed.
“I suppose I am and will have to remain loveless in terms of the personal kind of intimacy. But the emptiness is more than filled with the kind of joy and happiness that I encounter when I reach out to many Cebuanos who need caring,” she said.
“I am in my element, and I am at peace,” the governor stressed. (JPM)
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