How to Get Past the Culture Clash

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Making sure you really understand your partner is all the more important in intercultural relationships. If I didn’t put in extra effort, my boyfriend would still assume that stop signs reading “all-way” were the only ones that enforced a full stop, and I’d be wondering when his hookers were coming over.

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cyber_hippie

This is true of deaf/hearing partnerships, as well. My boyfriend and I are from the 2 sides of that coin. (We met online, so were able to get to know one another that way.) I am learning sign language, because I love him, and we really have a great relationship.

There needs to be respect and communication, just like there would be if he were, say, Lebanese. I'm not going to learn ASL overnight, but we have been together for 5 months now, and I'm able to converse with him in ASL pretty well.

He's introduced me to a rich world I would have missed out on, had we not dated. He's a wonderful guy, and I'm glad I chose to give this a go.

~The Hippie

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