Key Points
- Filipino-Australian Evangeline found hope after meeting Navy officer Darren Miller in Australia.
- Due to a sense of gratitude, Evangeline endured a difficult life with her first husband for ten years.
- Engaging with women's communities and sharing her story with friends helped strengthen her resolve to stand up for her rights as a woman.

Wedding photo of Evangeline and Darren Miller in the year 2008. Source: Evangeline Miller
"[I did fall in love with him immediately] and from the moment we met, we never separated," happily shares Filipino-Australian Evangeline Miller after meeting her husband Darren.
She considers her present husband a blessing after her bitter experience with her first love, her first Australian husband with whom she endured 10 rugged years and served him out of her deep sense of gratitude to the latter.
Evangeline is also Darren's second wife. They have been together for 20 years now.