It feels like we have merely touched the tip of the iceberg in unpacking our relationship box this week. Some of your comments and thoughts have prompted me to dig a little deeper next week and look at some of the major roadblocks to expat relationships. Not wanting to leave anyone in the lurch, we’ll [...]
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Roadblocks and rescuers
Posted in Rocking Relationships on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Iyouwe time for one and all
Posted in Rocking Relationships on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I think perhaps one of the biggest mistakes I made in my first marriage was to think that ‘we’ should do everything together. 100% ‘we’ time certainly sounds appealing yet it usually has the opposite effect on a relationship that it is supposed to have. Yes you know that right? So how come so many [...]
Is money a thorn in your relationship’s side?
Posted in Rocking Relationships on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Money can be a doozie when it comes to the power shift that many expat relationships experience. If you have been a home-maker previous to the move, things may only change a little (usually wishful thinking). However if you were part of the breadwinning team and have been relegated to ‘dependent’ this can be fraught [...]
Taking our power back
Posted in Rocking Relationships on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As adults we are extremely uncomfortable with a sense of powerlessness. When we lose it – or worse it gets ‘taken away’ from us – it can significantly affect our esteem. We spend a fifth of our lives as somewhat powerless ‘children’ and we suspect that when we grow up this will all change as [...]
The three potential pitfalls of expat relationships
Posted in Rocking Relationships on August 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In many ways, every relationship starts of as an expat one. We have to manage a new culture and new territory with our new partner and of course their family. Our family cultures collide and we make a whole new culture of our own. Transplanting that whole new culture to another whole new culture as [...]
Relationship roulette – luck or planning?
Posted in Rocking Relationships on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You figure that if you stayed home and stayed in a routine and never left your neighborhood and stuck to the same rituals and family traditions your whole life, everything, would stay the same and your relationship would never be challenged. Right? I don’t think so! If you didn’t strangle each other from boredom, I [...]
Rocking Relationships
Posted in Rocking Relationships on August 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ah a new week, a new topic! And since we had a light and restful week last week, it’s back to something a little deeper and near and dear to all our hearts. So today’s question is, ‘Are you rocking your most important relationship or is it rocking you?’. We all know that being an [...]
