Struggles within Ethnically Mixed Relationships
This thread was inspired by a few private conversations I had with Mortimer.
We both agreed this might be a worthy topic for discussion on TA. So this can be considered a joint thread idea. But I decided to start it
The premise behind this thread is that in any given romantic relationship and/ or marriage, there are often conflicts within them. That is a given. But we have not come across a thread specifically dealing with the topic of how racial or ethnic differences within that relationship might impact on that.
Below are some very loose examples of what I am talking about; more questions can be added/addressed:
Have any TA members experienced one or more of the following:
1.) Racial or Ethnic differences as a source of tension.
2.) Does one of the two parties ever use their ethnicity as means of 'superiority' over their partners.
3.) Are ethnic slurs ever used towards one another during a heated argument.
4.) Have you or your partner ever felt undeserving of the other because one might be viewed as a minority--or as an ethnicity of 'shame', so to speak; e.g. one is an 'Anglo-Saxon' white, while the other is mixed of some sort.
Please share how you or your partner deals with these issues, should they ever come up in the relationship.