University of San Agustin

College of Commerce

Gen. Luna Street, Iloilo City, Philippines, 5000

1ST ACTION RESEARCH

Group 1

Castro, Melvin

Valencia, Hyacinth Claire

Depalobos, May Rose

Zacal, Kate

Monton, Maria Monette

Surilla, Kristine Claire

Reyes, Vevien Angela

Radislao, Karl Benedict

FM 2-B

REYNALDO MARIANO

GE 7 – UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

 RAINBOWS… a society divide

Interviewed couple #1

1. What are the challenges i.e. physical, psychological, emotional, and

spiritual experienced by the same-sex couples based on the context of
family acceptance and social acceptance and how did you cope with these
challenges?

To start off, we didn’t really had an easy start, both of us came from a massive
break up and it was difficult to recover. We met three years ago, we got off on our
exes, I would say we were freshly heartbroken. We became each other’s best
counterparts and friends at that time. It grew to what we are now. We were strong
because of our fights, we struggled enough to be with each other up until now.

In terms of family acceptance, one of our major challenges in our relationship

was our relationship as individuals with our parents. My partner was open with his
parents, while I am not. It was difficult for me to handle hiding my partner for three
years. I felt like I was living in two worlds and they must not clash with each other.
When we were together spending my time with his family, we were accepted and
everything was fine. That for me was one of the challenging parts of our relationship.
It was difficult to handle emotionally, to be in between both worlds where I live. For
my partner as well to not be able to be with my family when he really wanted to. It
both took us to hurt ourselves along the process because of this current situation.
We as partners, don’t follow any religious affiliations. As we firmly believe, that
religions are social constructs made to earn or colonize, or for people who share the
same “faith” Faith too is psychological.

2021, More people have been more accepting and probably realizing there is no
harm with being who we are. Social acceptance has always been there, everyone
was so supportive and relaxed with what me and Eian share. We surround ourselves
with logical and smart people that’s why dimwits were not there to judge or say
something about us.
2. What are your future plans i.e. creating own family i.e. settling down, work,
and leisure and how will you make these plans work?

With regards to the future, we plan on being together as partners. We respect

the dogma of other people and we say nothing to it. With marriage, yes, to settle
down after probably, after we achieve our personal successes. We plan on our
goals, as individuals, and as partners. With trust and being each other’s rock all the
time, that’s how we are going to make this work. The straights don’t stumble upon
people asking them “how do you make it work?” there has always been this stigma
and we are up for it. We will make it work, like how straights work. We finish our
goals together, we become successful together. To be each other’s fallback.

Interviewed couple #2

1. What are the challenges i.e. physical, psychological, emotional, and

spiritual experienced by the same-sex couples based on the context of
family acceptance and social acceptance and how did you cope with these
challenges?

It depends on the social moryes and norms of a community where the same
sex marriage took place. The challenges would covers how these two person will live
by the moral standards of the community. If people tries to believe that same sex
marriage is immoral, then a person whose seek value of humanity should be
educated of accepting the crucial and evolving status of fair acceptance of how
people believe, behave, and endure the situation. For me having a same sex
relationship is not the issue between the couples but it’s an issue to the people who
perceive the negative idea of it. Coping up is as simple as living by the rules of
acceptance. If you have accepted and enter into these situation, you are already
prepared to face the challenges and issues that may arise.

2. What are your future plans i.e. creating own family i.e. settling down, work,
and leisure and how will you make these plans work?

When you enter same sex relationship, the first thing is to have an everlasting
compassion with each other and settle for a lifelong normal relationship. Its inevitable
that having a relationship is planning to have a family but with these situation, family
is more on valuing the people that surround and support you. The plan of
encouraging and support each other welfare problems and commitments is a major
priority in this kind of relationship. In this kind of situation we entered and plans we
made understanding and trust should be the seethe to conquer it.

Interviewed couple #3

1. What are the challenges i.e. physical, psychological, emotional, and

spiritual experienced by the same-sex couples based on the context of
family acceptance and social acceptance and how did you cope with these
challenges?

Having a relationship is hard how much more having a relationship with same
sex in this society full of judge mental people. If you’re in relationships with same sex
the first challenge you will facing is the acceptance of your family. We don’t care on
what other people say, for us the most important is the acceptance of our own family.
Just don’t lose hope, it takes time to be accepted. Just proved to them that there’s
nothing wrong being with same sex relationship.

2. What are your future plans i.e. creating own family i.e. settling down, work,
and leisure and how will you make these plans work?

Having with the same sex partner it is really hard what will be our future. Of
course we want to build a family as like a normal family having a wife as a girl and a
husband as a boy. We want to feel the happiness within like a normal one. In terms
for settling down, it is hard to work with this one. We need to have a deep feelings for
each other in order to pass the obstacles. Actually we don’t have plans in terms of
settling down. All we do is, we go with the flow on what will our future brings. In
terms of work, we don’t have any problem with that. He have his own work and so do
I.