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When your partner doesn't understand your cultural practices

I married someone from the mainland and they think my family's traditions around death are morbid, so I've been pretending they don't matter to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cross-cultural relationships can force painful choices between intimate connection and authentic spiritual expression.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — Pacific?”

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