Colombia Women - Some pretty tough cookies

elmodefoque says on Jan 12, 2006, 06:56:

I gotta agree, my wife single handed painted the entire apt while I was off fishing and also cleaned outside the apartment. Her first 5 years here, held 12 different jobs until she landed what she wanted. One tough cachaca.

I'll get there, when I get there!

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bufalo says on Jan 12, 2006, 09:00:

colombian women tend to keep in shape, don't use pregnancy as an excuse to fatten up like the gringas. Whe my wife was 3 1/2 months prego, we took a bus trip to porto alegre from montevideo. 4 1/2 we then travelled to cuba, stopping in panama and colombia on the way. 8 months we tood a trip to san andres. lookingat her from the back, most people didn't even know she was pregnant. Happy healthy baby was born, gringas should take a lesson from these ladies

"If you don't like it - lump it, take it down the road and dump it." - Archie Bunker played by Carroll O'Connor

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sydneygirl says on Jan 12, 2006, 10:09:

Congrats on becoming a dad Lowell, I don`t nessasrily think that its just Colombian women though, there are just some women who have bodies that give them less grief. Also the fact that she exercises regularily helps alot too!

Hey Elmo, your girl painted the house because he had the unstoppable urge to "nest" its common in most pregnant women and is natures influence. It usually happens towards the end of pregnancy and all the hard work helps to bring on labour.

Bufalo, you are generalizing I have seen plenty of tubby little colombian butter balls and I have seen loads of sleek "gingas" post pregnancy mums, its all relative.

Also you try being engergetic when your body wont let you hold down anything other than crackers. I admit there are pregnant lazies, but they are the world over.....imagine what men would be like if they had to carry babies.

Putting it harshly its like having a parasite leeching all your vitamins and nutrients for 9 months taking away 50% of your energy and making some women very sick. Maybe a major generalization on your part.

And if you are going to say that Colombian women NEVER complain its just because you cannot understand them....and if you can, then you dont hear them talking with their girlfriends.

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Linda_Belinda says on Jan 12, 2006, 11:57:

all is relative nothing is absolute in this world. Hello:
I am agree totally everything you say. Here men tend to generalize about women.
Perhaps they have been luckies for finding a right woman. But everywhere there are many hardworking women who help their husbands. if men treat with love the most women would keep a pretty body. You are right Sydneygirl.
Linda.

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bufalo says on Jan 12, 2006, 19:32:

gee, do you think I was generalizing? probably because I was. take notice of the word "tend" in my post. I didn´tsay every gringa and I didn`t say every colombiana. What I do notice from living many years in each country is that gringas, TEND, not every single one of them, to fatten up and keep it, whereas the colombianas don`t. sure there are fat colombianas, but I see way more fat gringas when I´m in the states.
"imagine what men would be like if they had to carry babies"
in our current condition, quite difficult, but if it would be that way, nature would give us the strength like it does you gals. funny, I have only heard that from the fatties, again making excuses. not saying you are one.
I didn´t use a big bold NEVER before "complain" colombianas complain plenty, but I tend to see gringas using preganancy as an excuse to complain more. And yes, I speak fluent spanish, my wife didn´t even know I was a gringo when we met, as well as other people here, so I do understand them.
Here`s where I use "every". Every, yes every colombiana that I knew in the states, when had a conversation regarding pregnancy was shocked when they saw how the gringas fatten up and complain. I didn`t say this, they did, don`t blame the messenger. read well I didn`t say every colombiana, rather every colombiana that I knew and had this type of conversation with.
just a quick question, what is so wrong with generalization? I mean hey, throw sociology and social psychology out the window, right? Same with cultural studies, why? I guess everything is the same. Tell me you don´t see people behave differently, in a general sense, in different cultures. Don`t people travel, amongst other reasons, to different places to take in the behavior, customs, etc. of the people that live there?

"If you don't like it - lump it, take it down the road and dump it." - Archie Bunker played by Carroll O'Connor

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lockheed says on Jan 13, 2006, 06:05:

He man I have to agree with gringoinbogota on is point.
I always say that Colombianas are always full speed ahead, even more then the Man. They will get the job done.

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rocinante says on Jan 13, 2006, 11:11:

slightly off the tough cookie.... But still relavant.

A good deal of the CO women married to the US posters here on this site already had one or more kids before they put themselves on the web/agencie lookin' for a gringo spouse. If they were out of shape, they either don't go this route, couldn't go this route or didn't get picked.

Usually if a women is in her late 20s, early 30s and she has already pumped one out, she should retain the shape she has for a good while - regardless of her country of origin.

In other words if a 30 year old woman has a 4 year old child and that woman is in great shape, chances are she has the capacity to be in good shape after having kids. Whether that capacity is governed by genetics, or ethics doesn't really matter as both are 'inherent'.

A lady with some mileage or some age is actually a good thing because if you hook up with a 22 year old with a slammin' body and she has her first kid, you might end up with big bertha, because you never know what's coming down the pike as there is no track record.

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dwmte says on Jan 13, 2006, 19:15:

i don't know about 'every' anything or 'every' person.... but, i do know that my wife has more energy than a pissed off bull in the macarena on the 'bad' day. she does more work than any woman should. she even makes a point that my daughter and i are lazy in comparison. probably true. she just never stops. now does she complain...endlessly, about everything, and she aint waiting to talk to her family or friends; however, she probably talks worse then!

now i noted one of the posters above seemed to have a patent answer or counter for every comment made. why? don't people see the world through 'their' eyes and experience the world through 'their' sensory systems. i agree with the other poster that generalizations in general are valid. hell, what else can we do. we don't deal with life the way a rocket scientist does with gravitational laws, we live it, touch it, feel it and know what we know because we experience it. frankly, i don't know another way.

as for gringas being different than paisas in general, THEY DAMN SURE ARE! PERIOD. i have 9 children from 7 mothers/wives. one paisa, one born in austria and one iranian...the rest were gringas. some were fantastic, others, less so. no belittlement to any of them. once you have a child with a woman, she's always your wife. however, not a one of these great ladies is like my paisa. is she better?, no. just different. do i love her more?, no. just differently. it's often as though it were a long distance relationship, as she seems to function on auto pilot. i might suggest to the above poster with so many answers, that she try marrying a 'typical' gringa, and then a 'typical' paisa. then she would know--more clearly--whereof we men speak. did i sense a put down of gringa women from the above poster? nah, just a personal observation. really, what else can one have?

and finally...are they fatter here in the u.s. Christ! if you have to ask... let's be honest, and i've lived in colombia for many years and in areas and settings only the rarest of foreigners has experienced, and truth be told, they damn sure are.

peace,

dw

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jalf12 says on Jan 13, 2006, 20:10:

WOW Nine children from seven mothers? I won't even ask! But you are the undisputed pro on this subject. As far as Colombianas and staying in shape goes I will say this. I have seen plenty of chunky little colombianas but, I have never once in several trips to Colombia seen a grotesquely over-weight, pouch sagging, obese crying, can hardly walk, fat woman like I see here in the states all the time.

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dwmte says on Jan 13, 2006, 20:24:

......... amen.

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GringoinBucaramanga says on Jan 15, 2006, 08:39:

Colombian gals are the best My wife has worked 3 jobs for the last year.
Paid our new condo off in Buca in that time.
Thank God for meeting her at that pay phone in Miami.
Must say I wouldnt trade her for 100 American gals.
And if you wonder why they all want an American
man, it's because they are treated like s**t by
the Colombian men.
I was cooking breakfast for my wife and 3 sisters the other day
and everone was looking at me so I asked why.
They said they had never seen a man cooking before.
Other than on TV.

jj_jp@msn.com

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ws244 says on Jan 16, 2006, 07:58:

cooking The majority of women in the better off Colombian families were brought up in households with maids, and consequently never learned how to cook.

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Albatross says on Jan 16, 2006, 08:35:

9 children from 7 mothers ??? Better put a sock on it next time. LoL

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Desideria (Moderator) says on Jan 16, 2006, 10:10:

that's only partially true "The majority of women in the better off Colombian families were brought up in households with maids, and consequently never learned how to cook." ws244

Many upper class girls in Colombia who were raised up having maids in the house only learned to cook a little. Some of them can't really cook to save their lives but many others can cook basic fare and a few special family recipes.

I was surprised to find out last time in Cali that upper and middle middle class young people were actually expected to pitch in cleaning and cooking even if the family had hired help.

Cheers,
Desi


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kernow62 says on Jan 16, 2006, 12:36:

My wife can't cook and they didn't have a maid!

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kat1 (Moderator) says on Jan 16, 2006, 12:44:

I had maids, and of course I can't cook, but my sister is an excellent cook, she even taugh my mum's current maid how to cook properly.

BTW I am not that bad, i can cook a decent meal :)

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dwmte says on Jan 16, 2006, 16:05:

albatross.... but that's exactly what i did...i used a sock.

dw

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veneco_ladilla says on Jan 18, 2006, 16:38:

hey just dont marry a colombian then you don't have any problems with being different it's very simple there's plenty of women to marry in the states there's no need to go to colombia

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