A Presidential Love Affair

I've been an avid fan of GMA and ABS-CBN news online. I don't know, I just have that habit of comparing how they line up the news. And today, my attention was suddenly caught by the status of the relationship between the President and Ms. Shalani. The news said that there was a rumor that they split up and later on denied by both parties.
I may have a bit of experience in love and relationships but I guess the things I went through before gave me strength and encouragement as to what I have become now. Or what me and my husband have become.
That's why the P-Noy-Shalani love affair will become one of the headlines in the next six years because everyone will always wonder what will happen or what they don't know, happened. For one, it's quite an extraordinary scenario being the girlfriend of the President. There's always prestige to it but at the end of the day, a woman would just want a man who will stand by her side.
I got the chance to see Shalani in an interview with Kris Aquino in The Buzz, just months or weeks before Kris left the show. And I just see myself in her. Her simple views and wants in a relationship. I feel for her. And I just can imagine how difficult it is for her being just behind all these things now. P-Noy faced with enormous problems in poverty, education, jobs, corruption and the countless issues the Philippines is facing. But I think Shalani can't deny the fact that still, she's a girlfriend and she needs time and attention...as much as P-Noy does. I just remember borrowing that line from Notting Hill when Julia Roberts said that she's an ordinary girl waiting for boy to love her. Aaawwww.....
But on a more serious note, it's just way beyond patience that you've got to have, dealing with the kind of relationship P-Noy and Shalani have. She looks like she's religious and I hope her faith will bring her to a happy ending she may be expecting (every woman wants one anyway).
Lastly, if there's any friendly advise I'll give Shalani. It would be this. Think of it as a long distance love affair. That the person you love is far away and that you don't have a single chance of being with him in your sadness or happiness. And I guess I'll just take that advise Peter gave me the first time we had that kind of relationship. He just said, never compare. Never compare the relationship we have, with that of others. And I took that seriously for seven years. That I was and still am happy despite the distance that separated us which become the force that binded us in the end. We were both busy with our careers and it prepared us well for a lifelong commitment after that seven years. Yes, it is hard and I believe that long-distance relationships isn't for everybody. Some people think of it as "out of sight, out of mind" thing but the others who would go for it think, "distance makes the heart grow fonder." But whatever it is (for Shalani), this is the best time to test this love. If it is yours, it will just come knocking at your door at the right time. If it is not, then it was never meant at all.