Periagoge
Scenario

How to Handle Different Cultural Approaches to Family Financial Support

We have been married two years and my Nigerian husband still sends half his paycheck to his family in Lagos but we can barely pay our own rent.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Money becomes the site where different definitions of family obligation collide with shared survival needs.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

Peri

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