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When Your Partner's Family Makes You Feel Like an Outsider

My Korean mother-in-law keeps correcting how I hold my chopsticks at family dinners and I feel like I will never be good enough for her son no matter how hard I try.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The daily microagressions of cultural performance expose how belonging can feel perpetually conditional.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.