Jamaican girls tried to steal my husband

Dear Pastor,

I am a regular reader of your column, and recently I have been listening to you on the radio.

I do enjoy your column, and your radio shows can be very entertaining. I do not live in Jamaica, but I am a Jamaican. Hearing Jamaicans speak on your show makes me feel like I am connecting with my countrymen.

I am married to a man who loves to hear Jamaican Patois. We have two children; I do not encourage them to speak broken English. Patois is not something difficult to pick up. When they are around Jamaican friends, they learn from them. My family came to Jamaica a year ago and we had a taxi driver carry us around. He spoke Patois for the entire week that we were here, and my husband loved it and tries to speak it every day.

I do not know when we will return to Jamaica, because the girls who work in the hotel where we stayed tried to get my husband to have affairs with them. I told one of them that I would report her and have her lose her job for trying to get familiar with my husband. She said I did not have any sense; she was only trying to be nice to him as a guest.

I would never allow my husband to go to Jamaica without me. I do not have any problem with my husband going with other women where we live in America, but he could not keep his eyes off the Jamaican girls. These girls know how to flash their stuff around. Apart from that, we had a wonderful time in Jamaica. The crime rate is high, but the people are great. I would eat oxtail, and ackee and salt fish, every day. My children had a good time, and they constantly ask us when we are going to return to Jamaica for another visit.

D.F.

Dear D.F.,

Have you considered that perhaps you allowed jealousy to get the better of you while you were visiting your homeland?

I remember vividly taking some of my friends to the north coast; these were two guys who were with me preaching at a conference. When a couple of girls saw them, they approached them and told them that they were available and wanted to spend some time with them. My friends were very shocked that these girls approached them; this was about midday. The girls were out selling themselves.

None of the guys took them on; they turned down the offers from these girls, but they told me that they were very surprised that in the middle of the day, so to speak, girls were willing to have sex with them for a price. I am glad Jamaica is more than just prostitutes selling themselves. You did your best to protect your husband, and no one was successful in taking him away from you on the visit. I hope you will come back to Jamaica very soon.

Pastor