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How to Handle Different Cultural Expectations About Extended Family

My Indian husband expects me to be okay with his mother living with us permanently but in my culture we would never ask that of a spouse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Marriage becomes a negotiation between two inherited definitions of duty and autonomy.

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“Where Are You with Interracial and Cross-Cultural Partnerships?”

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