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When couples discover cultural differences about major life decisions

My romantic partner and I have been talking about having kids, and we both want them in theory, but we come from different cultural backgrounds and we keep discovering assumptions about parenting that we've never discussed. Every conversation reveals another area where we just assumed we were on the same page.

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Two people planning a future together realize their unexamined assumptions about how to live that future are more different than they knew.

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