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How to Handle Language Barriers in Your Partner's Family

My Mexican girlfriend's family speaks Spanish around me at gatherings and I cannot tell if they are being welcoming or intentionally excluding me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Language becomes both bridge and wall, leaving love suspended in the space between inclusion and interpretation.

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.