Hello to all my readers! Love is international thing and all people around the world need it. What if you can’t meet the one you need somewhere near you? Then you either give up or broaden your horizons by expanding your search and looking out of your country? Nowadays with Internet, social media, dating sites, international couple have become more and more common! So can love overcome all the obstacles, such as distance, different cultures and backgrounds, language barrier? As humans, we are attracted by what is not usual or familiar. It is predictable that we are fascinated by those who have a different skin color, body, culture and different behaviors. Each couple is the outcome of a first date and each first date is the outcome of physical attraction. When two people start dating, cultural differences quickly become the central theme of their conversations. They laugh about them, they are surprised by them, they discuss what is better or worse and, if everything goes in the right direction, they end up being part of a new mixed couple. First all goes well, but eventually getting close to a partner can be more complicated when your cultural backgrounds are different: there can be many moments where you feel unappreciated and misunderstood. We often try to avoid intimacy by using these differences as an excuse to hold on to our past, because it feels safer. In these moments, it is important to be patient, swallow our pride and be ready to let go of our resistance, allowing ourselves to feel unsafe and vulnerable. It is essential to give less importance to our culture and mother country, and more to our basic individual needs to love, be loved and be intimate with someone. It is a very deep and beautiful healing process that, of course, makes us feel shaky... but it is necessary, if we want our relationship to grow. The need for intimacy is fundamental and it is much more important than holding onto our cultural system of beliefs and values. So I believe that a mixed couple is a priceless treasure, because it challenges personal and cultural history, forcing the individual to see how much one is conditioned by his or her past, and leads individuals to constantly change their point of view. The more the partners are different, the bigger the opportunity is for them to become free from their past and open to the present. What is your opinion? Do you have many examples of international couples who had been successful through years? Will you take a risk of creating a bond with someone from another country? I will be happy to know your thoughts! Thanks for reading! Olesya