My partner was born here and I immigrated fifteen years ago, and we're realizing we've never actually talked about how differently we experience 'home' — they see my visits to my birth country as vacations while I'm trying to maintain connections that feel essential to who I am, and it's creating this quiet resentment neither of us knows how to address.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that their fundamentally different experiences of place, belonging, and cultural connection are creating unspoken tensions about what 'home' means and how to honor multiple loyalties.
“Where Are You with Immigration & Cultural Transition?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.