I spent most of my teens in a relationship with someone from a culture/ethnicity different from my own. It was very much discouraged (by little things like crossburnings and death threats...oh and the daily procedure of spitting on/at me as I entered the school building) by the community where I grew up and for a number of years our relationship was secret. Some of my family were respectful and some were less than kind. It made for a difficult existence, for both of us. His mother was none too fond of his risking his life for me yet his gramma adored me. Puppy love became possession and the relationship became too toxic to be worth the fight. We were together about 4 years.

I don't really have any advice that would be different than I would give any couple regardless of cultures.

btw...here we have a different definition of a mixed marriage....a Seminole married to a Gator

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