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How multilingual couples navigate emotional expression

My wife and I speak different native languages and we fight in English but make up in whatever language feels right and it confuses our emotions completely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The distribution of emotional experience across multiple languages creates complex dynamics where feelings become entangled with linguistic choice.

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“Where Are You with Second language acquisition theory?”

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