Any Chicagoites Interested in Some Press?
I know we have some ladies (and perhaps gentlemen) here who call the Windy City home. Well, if any of you are interested, I’ve recently been contacted by a Chicago Tribune’s Red Eye reporter, Alexia, about an article she’s preparing to write on “meeting the parents.” Alexia would like to include an intercultural couple in [...]
The In-Laws Have Landed!
Among the suitcases (!) full of gifts, they brought me two large packages of Coffy Bite.
This is our bedside table, as of three minutes ago.
… I daren’t show you the carnage in the trash bin by the computer desk.
(Don’t worry - I will be posting LOTS more later - and regularly. However, I spent 13 [...]
Indian Parental Problems: When Your Intercultural or Interracial Relationship Is Suddenly an Issue
A new reader to the blog, jbf, recently posted her personal story as a detailed comment in the post Initial Family Resistance to your Intercultural Relationship. Jbf’s problem, however, is a bit different from the one highlighted in that post, so, with her permission, I’m hoisting her comment up into a post of its own, [...]
More Calm, Less Storm
Here’s a short, positive guest post from contributor NeoKalypso of Doings & Undoings on family, loss, and understanding.
As most of the regular readers know, I’m relatively new to my intercultural relationship with my South Indian guy, R. Though we’ve known each other for longer, in August we will be celebrating an official year [...]
Guess Who’s Coming to Diwali?
Slate’s Dear Prudence column has dipped its toe into the intercultural relationship waters with a advice on how to deal with Indian parents refusing to meet their boy’s girlfriend. The situation is one that a number of readers here have seen - or are currently in - so I thought I’d link to this timely [...]
Who is Affected by your Intercultural Relationship?
Many people subscribe to the idea that your personal life is nobody’s business but your own - as long as you aren’t maiming others, anyways. While I generally agree with the sentiment this idea expresses, I also think it’s important to realize that, like it or not, your actions affect a wide swath of people. [...]
Meeting the Desi Parents
Few things fill me with as much dread as meeting my partner’s parents.
First off, I’m socially awkward by nature - at least when meeting new people. I never know how to make small talk, or when good eye contact crosses the line into weird staring, or if my posture and facial expressions are saying [...]
