3. Women in a relationship with someone of another culture, what challenges did you...

Women in a relationship with someone of another culture, what challenges did you have to overcome?

I was born in Canada, but lived in Ireland for many years and married my husband there. He has a "stereotypical" Irish family (8 kids, gingers, massively Catholic), and they are all really, really close and all talk to each other and their parents each day. My family is much, much smaller and more private/independant. He also comes from a home with very traditional gender roles. He had a father who ran his own company and a SAHM for his whole life. His father (who I love) will literally sit at the dinner table at 530pm and wait for dinner to be served, and say things like "I'm ready for my tea," which is code for his wife to get the tea. I grew up with two working parents who made equal salaries. His three sisters each have five kids, whereas my brother and his wife, and me and my husband, only have two.

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