Fighting against the silence struggle
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Fighting against the silence struggle
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Cultural shock#2 that could be hurting your bicultural relations is the "silence Struggle". How many of us stay quiet because we want to maintain the peace, because that is what we are supposed to do according to society.
In a relationship, we have expectations both for our partners and for us. They are both cemented in the way we were raised. How we are taught to think and behave, this is exactly how we will expect our partner to behave and how we will come behave ourselves, because we don't want to dissapoint.
But looking to not disappoint other, we end up disappointing ourselves for not speaking up, for doing things that are not important to us, but we have become used to. The silence struggle prevents us from speaking up our mind and going with the flow to keep harmony in the house, at the cost of our own personality.
Eventually this silence will cost us a lot, we start delegating decision of everyday living because we have lost that ability to go after our goals and our dreams.
What are things that you hate doing, but you do anyway because you are supposed to do?