{"id":2150,"date":"2016-10-17T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/17\/diamonds-in-the-dump-a-look-at-culture-shock-part-3\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:32:13","slug":"diamonds-in-the-dump-a-look-at-culture-shock-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/2016\/10\/17\/diamonds-in-the-dump-a-look-at-culture-shock-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds in the Dump&#8211;a look at Culture Shock Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides nurturing your relationship with God, here&#8217;s another strategy for <strong>persevering through Culture Shock,<\/strong> the second in the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/the-stages-of-acculturation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stages of Acculturation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nurture Your Relationship with Your Spouse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is another commitment that is significantly longer than the commitment to service overseas.\u00a0 You said, \u201cTill death do us part.\u201d Be sure that you are doing things that continue to give that that message. For the first time in your marriage, you may have to do things differently. You may have to rearrange your daily schedule, to make special meals, or sit and listen at times that weren\u2019t needed before. You may have to make unique sacrifices that were not needed in your homeland.<\/p>\n<p>If your spouse is suffering from \u201cculture shock\u201d you will need to attend to him or her in special ways until he or she comes through it. Do everything you can to communicate, \u201c<strong>We are forever<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>We will go through this together<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 When your spouse is struggling with the language or with adjusting to a new home, with your actions say, \u201cI will wait for you.\u201d\u00a0 For example, if your spouse cannot handle having many guests, wait a while before freely inviting neighbors into your home.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could say that I was good at communicating my commitment to my husband while we lived in Mongolia. But, actually, this strategy is written in hind-sight. I&#8217;m afraid selfish motivations and a strong sense of obligation pushed me during the stressful times of living overseas, and I did NOT know how to put my husband&#8217;s needs above my own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides nurturing your relationship with God, here&#8217;s another strategy for persevering through Culture Shock, the second in the Stages of Acculturation. Nurture Your Relationship with Your Spouse. This is another commitment that is significantly longer than the commitment to service overseas.\u00a0 You said, \u201cTill death do us part.\u201d Be sure that you are doing things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}