Cross Cultural Marriage celebrates marriages woven together from different countries and cultures. All marriages are to some extent cross-cultural. The trick is blend these into a culture that focuses on the cross.
10 Stabilisers You Can Put in Place for Your Marriage!
We all need to have stabilisers in our lives. These 10 stabilisers should help you focus on what counts and do life well! Set Realistic Goals. Setting realistic goals is something Roy, and I both struggle with. We want to save the world before breakfast is over. When...
Why We All Need Stabilisers
If we are making the wrong sort of noises, there may be a cause e.g. too many potholes on our journey. Our mechanic told us that car the stabilisers needed more attention with these road conditions. We also need to make sure we have stabilisers in our lives throughout...
How to Avoid Falling in Potholes
Our car came back from the garage today. We had been particularly worried about the strange clunking noises it was making which were getting louder by the day. Our minds were running riot with all sorts of thoughts about what could be the matter, and frankly, we were...
I’m still sick of it!
I'm sick of it! Part 2 The Red Sludge A few years ago Hungary hit world news when toxic red sludge burst through a dam at Kolontar. Kolontar is a village about 75km south of us and, at the time, we didn't know what impact it would have on us. On the Thursday after...
I’m sick of it!
Unfortunately saying 'I am sick of it' can come all too naturally. Cultural stress can result in us becoming sick emotionally and sick physically. Stress suppresses the immune system and therefore it is not uncommon for someone, who has been on the field a long time,...
Culture Shock or Culture Stress?
How is culture stress different from culture shock? Perhaps some of you are wondering why I am using the term culture stress instead of culture shock in this blog. Well quite simply they are two different things. Culture shock is like a wave of shock that impacts you...
Culture Stress 6
Children. The more your children internalise the values of your host culture and the more you realise that they will be quite different from you, the more stress you may feel. Ronald L. Koteskey There is so much truth in this statement! Our family life is a little...
Entry – Re-entry: Culture Stress 5
Entry-re-entry. Most missionaries, unlike immigrants, live in two cultures and may never feel fully at home in either. Every few years they change their place of residence, never fully adapting to the culture they are in at the time. Ronald L. Koteskey...
Culture Stress 4
Temperament. The greater the difference in your personality and the average personality in the culture, the greater the stress. A reserved person may find it difficult to feel at home where most people are outgoing extroverts. An extrovert may never feel at ease in a...
Culture Stress 3 – Communication
I met your wife; he is nice. 'I met your wife; he is nice.' No need to panic this is a very common mistake here. In Hungarian, there is only one third-person singular pronoun: ő, this means that often he, she or it get muddled up because one word covers all three in...