I send my mother 1.5 million pesos monthly for my postpartum wife. Coming home early, I found my wife eating spoiled rice with fish heads. Furious, I confronted my mom, who sneered, “She doesn’t deserve better.” Then, I checked the family safe and found…

exhaustion has a unique talent for transforming a reasonably intelligent man into a compliant fool. I was logging unprecedented hours, feeding my body to the industrial beast, and every night I anesthetized my guilt with the mantra that today’s agony would purchase tomorrow’s fortress.

The tragic reality is that my chest swelled with misplaced pride.continue reading …