My daughter married into a family with completely different cultural expectations and my wife and I keep giving her conflicting advice about how much to adapt versus how much to hold onto our way of doing things. We're all trying to help her navigate between worlds but I think we're just making her feel more caught in the middle.
More people experience this than they realize.
Multiple family members are offering different strategies for cultural adaptation, inadvertently creating additional pressure for someone already managing complex cultural translation in their daily life.
“Where Are You with Translation and the movement of ideas between cultures?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.