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In sum, Carlos and Carlas live-in relationship was cold, empty and
meaningless. They felt like they were forced to stay together for the
sake of Jenny.
Considering, however, that Jenny was denied admission to a Catholic
School since her parents were unmarried, Carlos married Carla on 20
January 2005 in civil rites. This was followed by a Catholic wedding a
year later, or on 25 January 2006. Briefly after their wedding, Carlos
also adopted Jim as his son. Two (2) more children were born to them
thereafter, Joy and Jaya, on 20 August 2007 and 20 March 2009,
respectively.
During their marriage, Carlos discovered more about Carlas character.
Among others, he discovered that Carla worked as a promo girl in bars,
disco houses and clubs, engaged in escort services, was addicted to
alcohol, such that she would never stop drinking until she would lose
consciousness, was addicted to shabu, even mixing it in her alcoholic
drink, had serious anxiety problems, which would often result in violent
confrontations and had personality problems. Carlos opined that their
youngest childs condition as a special child could have been due to
Carlas vices during her pregnancy.
As a result of Carlas drug addiction, she was confined in Droga
Foundation, a drug rehabilitation center. Her confinement in said
center, however, did not change her character since she went back to
her vices after being discharged from said center. She even resorted
to pawning their family jewelry and other assets to satisfy her craving
for alcohol and drugs.
In 2011, after Carla attempted against Carlos life with a knife while
asleep and since she became more violent, Carlos deemed it better to
stay away from her. Although Carlos left her and their children, he,
however, continued to give them financial support in the minimum
monthly amount of One Hundred Thousand Pesos (P100,000.00).
Carla continued her substance abuse even after their separation in
fact.
In fact, she suffered from mild stroke resulting from her
dependence from alcohol and prohibited drugs.
Even after their separation in fact, Carla continued to drag Carlos into
trouble. Carlos would be surprised by Carlas creditors who would go
after him to collect her debts and to ask him to redeem the pieces of
jewelry she pawned to them. He was also made to pay substantial
amounts of money in 2012 to the families of the victims Carla ran over
along EDSA in Pasay City because of drunk driving. Not only that,
Carla even forged his signature in a Deed of Sale in an attempt to
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several of his group outings. When Carlos had to vacate his unit in the
same condominium, Carla offered him her other room in her own unit.
Considering that they stayed together in the same unit, they became
closer to each other. Eventually, they became sweethearts. Their
sexual relationship soon resulted in her untimely pregnancy with their
eldest child, Jenny. Later, she learned that Carlos was still seeing his
former girlfriend. As a result of her extreme anger, she ordered Carlos
to leave her unit. She dragged him outside with his clothes when he
refused to leave her unit. However, when Carlos asked for forgiveness
the next day, she accepted him back to her unit since she was so inlove with him.
Soon, they transferred residence in a condominium unit in Makati City.
It was in this place where their serious marital problems came to fore
since Carlos returned to his old womanizing ways, which terribly
affected her ego as a wife. By reason of Carlos hurting behavior, Carla
began to drink alcohol to forget her problems, until she became
addicted to it. Carla contended that Carlos turned violent to her such
that their simple conversations became arguments. Worse, their
bickering also ended in their yelling at each other, even in the wee
hours of the morning and in the presence of their children. Carla
described their war and peace like relationship as very serious. In an
effort to save their marriage, Carla suggested to Carlos that they
transfer residence. When they transferred to Quezon City, however,
Carlos continued his womanizing habit. In fact, Carlos became a gross
womanizer which resulted in their regular quarrel. As a result, Carla
became more addicted to alcohol. She did not deny that she was
confined in Droga Foundation for drug rehabilitation. She stressed that
her confinement in said center was just a result of her marital
problems with Carlos, which the latter himself created.
Carla stressed that it is Carlo who has a dysfunctional psychological
behavior. In support of her contention, she revealed that Carlos was
once rushed to Cardinal Santos Hospital due to anxiety attack and
alcohol abuse and Medical City on board an ambulance after he was
found in his condominium unit half dead due to alcohol abuse. He was,
as well, brought twice to the latter hospital from Batangas and
confined in the ICU due to alcohol abuse.