My parents were very unprepared for it, because they
He did persist!
never expected their perfect Lebanese daughter (in a
sense) to come home... and I was always so proud of
He persisted for a long time, for three years... so in
being Lebanese, so I think it was a big shock for
the end he managed to prove to them... they came to
them, but you can’t help who you fall for, and when
see that marrying someone who’s the same as you
they found out they were like, oh no you can’t do
doesn’t guarantee you a happy life-long marriage,
that, it’s not right, how will your marriage pan out...
and we were on the same level with so many other
and they always expected that it wouldn’t necessarily
things that perhaps we could work the culture out.
work out because of our cultural differences. They
To be honest we’ve been married for two and a half
were really difficult about it to begin with, but I
years now and our different cultures haven’t really
think that once they saw his persistence...
affected us – I think that anything we disagree on is
just because of who we are personally, not
necessarily because of our culture!