Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
Confessions of a Bicultural Mom This past year has been busier than ever and I’ve felt guilty too many times about living in the Midwest and about not immersing our daughter enough into Mexican culture. It’s been hard. We’re far away from our family and friends who influence our Latino roots most and we haven’t [...]
“Dear Mom” – A Letter Never Sent My husband wrote this letter years ago. It’s a letter to his mom that he never sent, but the pain is still there. Still fresh. He wanted to share it with you today for those who are going through something similar. Know that you are not alone and [...]
Saying ‘NO’ to Abusive Relationships Over the course of a lifetime, it seems that each of us will have to deal with a hurtful or abusive relationship at one point or another. Whether it be an overly critical mother-in-law or an aggressive spouse, we have to find a way to come out above it all [...]
Coping with Toxic Relationships I read a great article yesterday, one that I would recommend to anyone stepping into a committed relationship, but most of all to those in interracial and intercultural relationships. These tips for dealing with in-laws are true life savers, so be sure to read them before it’s too late! For those already wounded [...]
The ‘Good’ & ‘Bad’ of Interracial Relationships One of the disadvantages of being an interracial couple is the fact that you have to bite your tongue so often in order to get by unscathed. There is so much more that can be said on this blog, but I can’t help feel like I’m always holding back on [...]
Image Credit: Flickr / peevee@ds Coping with Toxic Relationships I read a great article yesterday, one that I would recommend to anyone stepping into a committed relationship, but most of all to those in interracial and intercultural relationships. These tips for dealing with in-laws are true life savers if you read them in time, but if [...]
A couple of days ago, I wrote about how becoming an insider among another race can make you an outsider with your own. Today, I wanted to talk about the flip-side of being an insider…the second edge of the sword that often cuts interracial couples and multiracial individuals just as deep. Combining race, culture, religion [...]
Read Part 1 >> The Better Parts of Our Intercultural Wedding Although our wedding had been very stressful and caused me to have a near breakdown just weeks before the “I DOs”, we were happy to finally be married and proud that we didn’t let our families stand in the way of our union. Trust [...]
Wedding Horrors My husband and I were very much in love and excited to finally be getting married. We had been together for almost four years by the time we’d gotten hitched, a fact that drove my hubby crazy because he started asking me to marry him after just three months of dating…lol. It wasn’t [...]
How I Lost My Spanish I usually don’t write too many personal posts because I have trouble believing that anyone would be interested, but after the last one, I just felt like there was so much more to say. So…the story of how I lost my Spanish…yes, fue mi culpa (it’s my own fault!). When I [...]
What could be worse than taking on your mother-in-law? The dreaded sister-in-law. It may have been obvious to some, but I was completely unaware that a sister-in-law could bring so much grief and make me feel like such an outsider. It started off well, but things turned bad quickly and I am still left with [...]
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