Need some pearls of wisdom on how to keep your marriage brimming? Read on to find out how Tan Sri Lim Huah Leong draws from his experience and Chinese philosophy to strengthen the husband-wife relationship.
In this three-part series, we speak to three society couples – who have been married for decades and are still very much in love – about how they met and what it takes to make relationships work. This is their story.
Tan Sri Lim Huah Leong and Puan Sri Wendy Lim met in 1981 at a little meet and skeet with a group of friends. There was something very special about this lady he had just met that made his heart skip a beat.
“When I first met Puan Sri Wendy, I told her that I will love her more than her parents ever will,” Tan Sri Lim says with a hearty laugh. It is a promise he has kept till this very day.
The courting period was challenging, he says, wiping the invisible sweat on his forehead. “Back then, I had to drive all the way to her house to wait for her if I couldn’t get hold of her on the landline. When you are on a date, you are on a date! There is no such thing as last minute cancellation.”
It’s a far cry from the dating scene these days, that’s for sure. “There’s an art to courting and the mystery is what drives you to get to know each other better. We didn’t have the privilege of looking up Google or Facebook to find out more about someone.”
They were married about a year later in a “typical traditional wedding, nothing fancy!” according to Puan Sri Wendy while her husband declared that he was happily drunk.
“Jokes aside, I believe we were meant for each other. It’s a match made in heaven. She’s the other half who made me who I am today and the woman in the quote: ‘behind every successful man, there’s a great woman’.”
