Questions you have been too polite to ask but always have wanted to.

I’m asking about both cultural and language barriers.

As my Scottish/Welsh friend would say it, “Thurteetree” 😂

How bout somthing that we hated to ask but had too like may see your ID.

I think I’ve been asked if I’m early 20’s which was flattering but deep inside I knew the truth lol.

Thats where good parenting comes in..knows what sites the kids are on and whats being said

In that case I'd imagine with language barriers that significant getting that close would be difficult.

although my 1st boyfriend and i are from the states, we are different ethnicity. we had a couple of culture clashes, but fortunately, we were able to talk through them.

my husband is of a different ethnicity, and i can't remember having any culture clashes with him. i'm guessing my 1st relationship helped me to see things from a different point of view. i also assume that being from the states, our differences aren't as big as it would be if we were from different countries.

We are all young, in my eyes

Uff, difficult. For me a significant language barrier - probably not. But I am not sure how I'd actually meet that person and find out we have everything in common etc. if there's this significant language barrier to start with. That was your original post right: finding out you have a lot in common but there are significant language/cultural barriers. Like if you meet someone and there's this huge language barrier to begin with; and you have already discovered everything about the other person being perfect and all, I guess you have already decided to move past that language barrier. I mean how else would it happen? Sure you can be infatuated with someone you meet based off looks alone, but to determine that you have all kinds of stuff in common does take communication ie a willingness to overcome a barrier right? I am a little unsure as to what a relationship is without communication.

When it comes to cultural.. Difficult to determine. I think it'd depend a lot on how different a culture would be. For example, if my significant other comes from a Muslim family. He's Christian but everyone else in his family follows Islam. There's all kinds of traditions he partakes in out of respect for the family. Do you want to join? I don't know. I'd say I'd go a long way out of respect for my partner/family in law but perhaps you would not feel comfortable doing certain things.
I am not sure if traditions for me are the main problem; more different culture meaning different ways of upbringing/thinking. Eg what I struggled with in the past are men who have different views than mine on eg gender roles, what women should do in the household, etc. That does not have to be cultural though, plenty of men from cultures similar to mine that I just disagree with.

I have been married to a foreigner and it didn't go well. Yes. The culture was different. And the language difficult. But what killed it was that he was addicted to evil when I sought God. The spiritual distance between us was there from the beginning but it grew deeper and deeper.

This is a difficult one, because I am partly convicting myself by it.

Why are some of you using your past and your circumstances as an excuse not to improve your lives, your walk with Christ and reach out in love to people around you?

Is that actually what I'm doing when I choose to avoid people in general? And is it really an excuse or a valid reason? These are questions I don't have answers to, but I am asking myself and thinking about it daily. It bothers me that I don't have an actual life apart from my own computer screen. What bothers me more so than that, however, is the fact that there are people out there who do sick things to people in private and never seem to get caught. The fact that this has afflicted me at some point in my life is enough to make me incredibly wary of all people, including those who want me to open up or bond with me or befriend me.

Despite all this, I have serious plans in the future to do more to help people. If it's possible, I want to work at soup kitchens during the holidays, and also if possible, I want to volunteer at animal shelters. It's also a goal of mine, when I have more money coming in, to buy feminine hygiene products for the homeless. All these things matter to me and I have in mind to do them for the glory of God. There are people who have supported me in times of need and I feel it in my heart to do this for others.

Tell that to my body after tossing and turning for a night....better yet, yell at it, maybe it'll finally wake up haha

Um, WAKE UP!!! 🤣

Why is Joefizz not Joefizz anymore?

I think that he had some kind of problem with his previous account so he deleted it and started over.

Ah. That explains it. CC isn't the same without him.

It's hard for me to adjust to changes also in the status quo.

my dad had a whole mess of Hawaiian shirts. When he passed we distributed them through out the family and wore them to the funeral. He loved the ocean and boats, he was a Navy man, he loved visiting Hawaii and other tropical places...and he loved listening to Jimmy Buffet and music from the Beach Boys.