msfroh@lemmy.cato[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•For people who left a country for another, how do you deal with reverse culture shock?English
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1 year agoIf you get married or start dating in the new country, it’s worth being aware of how much more culture shock your partner is likely to experience when visiting your country of origin.
I kind of made this mistake after leaving my home country for many years, getting married, and moving home(-ish) with my spouse. I needed time to readjust to the surroundings, but it was mostly digging up old memories. (Also, it wasn’t exactly where I came from, so some things were different.) I mistakenly fooled myself into assuming that things that I remembered would be natural for my spouse, which was obviously stupid.
I was dumb. Don’t be dumb.
It’s a wonderful comparison going back at least thirty years: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1994/07/15