Ask the Yangxifu: Dealing with “When Will You Get Married?” & Other Awkward Chinese Family Questions
A Western woman living in Asia with her Chinese boyfriend wonders how to deal with awkward questions from his mom, like “When will you get married?”
Guest Post: “He Feels Horrible About Me Being The Breadwinner”
“I hope my Chinese boyfriend will someday…find a way to accept that his girlfriend’s income will probably always be more stable than his.”
6 Ways to Prepare for Meeting the Parents in China
Meeting the parents inspires anxiety, especially when you’re a foreigner about to meet the parents of your Chinese boyfriend or girlfriend here in China.
Guest Post: “Am I in the ‘Wrong’ AMWF Relationship?” How a Woman Who Loved China Fell for a Korean man
“I was worried because he was Korean, while I was passionate about China…. I kept asking myself, ‘Why do I have to fall in love with a Korean man?'”
Double Happiness: “He just never thought a Western girl could [love] him”
Marghini’s future Chinese boyfriend was in fact into her all along, but he almost didn’t believe she would be into him because she was a Western woman.
The “love, location, career” dilemma for Chinese men/Western women in love
For some Chinese men and Western women in love, a big question looms over their relationship — where should the couple live and work in the world?
Yin-Yang: On Love, Fighting and Finding Harmony in a Chinese-Western Marriage
After the honeymoon was over, Austrian R and her Chinese husband “fought all the time”. But they found harmony once again in their cross-cultural marriage.
Fenshou: “Everything Was Perfect” Until Texas Tragedy
“Lisa” had a seemingly perfect relationship with a Chinese man she met in the US — until their romance unravelled after tragedy struck his family in Texas.
Fenshou: Algerian Muslim Falls For Chinese Atheist, But Love Doesn’t Last
Soulef, who is Algerian and Muslim, falls for a Chinese atheist working in her home country. Theirs was love at first sight, but it didn’t last.
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