The never-ending waves of family strife shown in Linda Ty-Ten Casper's Thousand Seeds introduce readers to major disempowering scenarios involving the dominated gender that are seen as "normal" social occurrences. This article examines gender dynamics through the lens of the married American couple, the Rowbothams, the only American marriage mentioned in Ty-novel Casper's during the American colonization of the Philippines in the early 1900s. The term "American Occupation" refers to the period during which the United States occupied the Philippines. The paper employs qualitative research to illustrate a microcosmic power struggle between a husband and wife in a constrained context, as well as their reaction to American dominance. The objective is to expose the impotence generated by social and historical processes associated with colonization. Finally, it explains why husbands and wives behave differently in gender relations and explains some of the more visible distinctions in degrees of happiness, domain of power, privileges, and influence across various landscapes of human partnerships.