It‘s Christmas time again. Time to celebrate and also a time of traditions. All over the world, people celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ. In some countries like in Germany, this is often a silent night. A night at home with the family. In other countries Christmas Eve is a big party with lots of food, lots of people and loud music – sometimes even with fireworks. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
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Family and in-laws are often a reason for conflict in marriages – much more for intercultural couples. Every family is different and we are so thankful, that we got two wonderful families. In Germany the extend families (the parents, uncles, aunties and other relatives of the couple) are for many couples not so important. There are many families who have little contact to the rest of the family. It is also sad to see that there are more and more families where the relationship between grown-up children and parents are destroyed. In Germany normally a young family tries to be independent from their parents or the rest of the family. On the other side family in the Philippines (at least in most cases and in the family of Rose) is considered very important. Often after marriage the young couple stays with one of the parents in the same house. Finances are shared and everybody is involved in taking care of the children. How do you experience family? How is
Even after almost 25 years of marriage we realise that our marriage is not perfect. The way we grew up is different, we have different personalities and we are just not perfect. But we do not need to be perfect – we decided to stick together and we want to encourage other cross-cultural couples to do the same. Don’t easily give up in your marriage – don’t throw away your relationship – just fix what is broken – just as this couple said who was married for 65 years. With our messages we want to encourage you – but we also love to receive feedback from you – either here on our blog – or just privatly via e-mail or any other form of message.