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This insightful book is for couples either in or contemplating an intercultural marriage. Author Dugan Romano examines the impact of cultural differences on marriage and offers practical guidelines on how to deal with the complexities and problems involved. Romano suggests that the joys of an intercultural marriage often result as much from overcoming the obstacles and confronting the challenges as from the adventure of crossing cultures. Romano relies on the voices of the many intercultural couples she has interviewed. All of the chapters have been expanded and updated, and two are entirely new. The focus has remained the same, however. After an introduction, the author examines the motives of those who marry across cultures. She then identifies nineteen "troublespots" in such marriages, points at which cultural differences raise issues and create problems that are either not present or are less severe in monocultural marriages. These troublespots range from everyday basics like food
