With one in 10 people in Britain in a cross-cultural relationship,clash in the domestic is forcing couples to seek counsellingEarly in their marriage, Reenee Singh and Stephen Fitzpatrick hit a difficult time and went for counselling. “The fact that we were an interracial couple – I am Indian, and Stephen white British – wasn’t seen as particularly meaningful. Yet we realised in time how key cultural problems were to the breakdown in our communication, she says.“The therapy was helpful in other ways, but I was seen as oversensitive when I minded, or for instance,being seen as the nanny with our baby because he was pale-skinned and fair-haired. Or I found it upsetting that Stephen thought I was trying to crowd out the intimacy in our relationship by filling the house with friends and family – the thing Indian families do. I began to feel isolated from the life I wanted to lead. We withdrew emotionally from each other.” Related: Nearly one in ten people in England and Wales in inter-ethnic relationship Parents of mixed-race children cannot share the experience of growing up as mixed… often it is assumed they are adoptedContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com