Loving Across Borders: How to Navigate Conflict Communication and Cultural Differences in Your Intercultural Relationship

Loving Across Borders is the essential guide for navigating a new intercultural relationship. Faced with challenges ranging from immigration to different value systems fiance visas to communication and everything in between if youre in an intercultural relationship you might feel alone and unequipped for handling all the obstacles in your path. Get on track create and maintain the intercultural marriage of your dreams.This book is the go-to guide to multicultural relationships! KC sensitively and skillfully provides a roadmap on how to navigate common challenges cross-border couples encounter. Whether youve recently fallen in love or have been in a committed relationship for a long time Loving Across Borders will be a valuable resource - for you your partner and the closest people around you! - Camilla Quintana Cert. Life & Relationship Coach for Expat WomenIn Loving Across Borders find insights into navigating relational personal practical and family challenges that may present themselves in your cross-cultural relationship. Learn author KC] McCormick Çiftçis framework for working your way through conflicts of all kinds from the inside out.Youll learn: how to gracefully navigate any conflict through the DIVE frameworkhow (and why) to set boundaries both within and around your relationshiphow to maintain your relationship through the stressful K1 visa process (or any other immigration nightmare)how to talk about sensitive subjects (like sex and money) and why those conversations are a MUSTAn intercultural relationship can feel isolating in the beginning - no one else in your life can understand or relate so you find yourself opting for silence to avoid being judged or misunderstood. In this book youll find a sister in KC McCormick Çiftçi sharing her own experience both from her own relationship and as an intercultural coach and community leader. Youll turn the last page feeling equipped empowered and knowing with confidence that you arent alone.This book is a great resource for anyone in the process of marrying someone from another country and it contains lessons and wisdom with applications far beyond.KC provides a thorough overview as well as valuable tactics and mindset shifts for navigating the unique challenges faced by intercultural couples (or their family members). She consistently draws attention to the single most important element of appropriate and effective cross-cultural engagement: our own self-awareness. Drawing on personal experiences KC leads the reader through critical lessons and skills in cultivating or supporting a successful intercultural relationship. If youre in need of a friend ally or guide as you sail these uncharted seas then you need to read this book. - Lena Papadopoulos Interculturalist and Transformation CoachKC does a beautiful job to share all the small nuances of intercultural relationships in Loving Across Borders. A mix of guidance and KCs story her book captures all of the details (big and small) of loving someone whos from a different culture learning about yourself setting boundaries and self-awareness. While reading I finally felt seen heard and understood from someone who is in a similar situation as my own. If you find yourself loving someone from a different culture or country KC and her expertise in this area are like a warm comfort to know youre never alone in this! - Cassandra Le Founder of The Quirky Pineapple Studio