In an interracial or intercultural relationship, can my partner and I learn to understand each other?
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Gloria MacDonald is the founder and President of Perfect Partners, The Personal Relationship Executive Search Firm, a highly successful, personalized matchmaking service. Gloria has interviewed hundreds and hundreds of single men and women and has introduced over 1500 couples. She is an expert in the field of dating and relationships, having appeared on a variety of TV and radio shows. She’s the co-author of the highly acclaimed book Laws of the Jungle: Dating for Women Over 40. She believes, and has seen through her work, that there is a perfect partner for anyone of us who truly desires to find that relationship, believes they can have it, and are willing to accept it. Gloria is an engaging and dynamic speaker and trainer who changes lives. Testimonials from people who have attended Gloria’s seminars: “Gloria uses her exceptional knowledge of real world dating and her unique and exciting style to inspire women to not give up. Truly a wonderful presenter. I would highly recommend anything she does now and in the future.” “This is the information single women and men have been waiting for.” “A truly engaging seminar. You are obviously an expert on the topic. Your knowledge, compassion, sensitivity and forthrightness was spiced with humour to create a clean and practical approach to relationship success.” “Attending your seminar has truly been an inspiration. YOU ARE AN AMAZING TRAINER!”
In an interracial or intercultural relationship, can my partner and I learn to understand each other?
Founder of Perfect Partners Gloria McDonald explains how partners of different backgrounds can learn to understand each other.
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Host: In an interracial or intercultural relationship, can my partner and I learn to understand each other?
Gloria MacDonald: Well, I say we really need to try to learn to understand our partner and the differences between us. I do believe this is important, but I also think it's important that we have a frame of reference for this and that is that none of us can ever truly expect to know and understand completely another person because the only frame of reference we have is our own frame of reference. How we were raised, what our family did, how we celebrated holidays, what our values are, what our ethics are, what our religious upbringing is? We can't truly, truly, truly ever understand another person because we haven't experienced what they have experienced. We can't be another race than what we are. So we can't possibly fully understand what it's like to be that other race, to be a person of that other race. We can't ever have another mother tongue; speak another language natively than the language we speak natively. So we can't ever truly understand what it would be like to speak another language as your first language. There are so many things that it's impossible for us to really understand the depths of another person's experience because we truly cannot experience it. We can't feel it. We don't really know what it's like to be that other person. So we need to try to the best of our ability to understand that our partner is different and have some understanding around what makes them different and why they are different, but we can't expect to know them completely and we can't ever expect our partner to know and understand us completely. We can't even know or understand ourselves completely. So how could we ever expect us to know and understand someone else or expect them to know and understand us completely? So it's really about levels of understanding and appreciating.
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