Intercultural Relationship Counselling Dublin – Love Across Differences
When two people fall in love across cultures, what’s at play isn’t just language or tradition – it’s the way each person imagines love itself.
How do we express affection? How do we show respect, anger, or need? These meanings are shaped by where and how we were raised, and sometimes, they clash without either partner even realising why.
In intercultural couples, the most difficult moments often come from this gap – not a lack of love, but a lack of shared assumptions. A gesture meant as caring might be read as controlling; a wish for space might feel like rejection. Beneath those differences are deep, often unspoken emotional codes.
Therapy gives couples a space to explore those codes. To ask not just what happened, but what it meant. The aim isn’t to erase difference, but to learn how to speak across it, to find a shared language that honours both worlds.
From a psychoanalytic lens, every relationship is intercultural to some degree – because no two people ever share the same experience. Every couple must translate each other’s language of desire. Intercultural love simply makes that truth visible.
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- Éric Laurent: “The Uses of Fantasy”
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