Loving Across Borders
How to Navigate Conflict, Communication, and Cultural Differences in Your Intercultural Relationship

Loving Across Borders is the essential guide for navigating a new intercultural relationship. Faced with challenges ranging from immigration to different value systems, fiance visas to communication, and everything in between, if you're in an intercultural relationship you might feel alone and unequipped for handling all the obstacles in your path. Get on track create and maintain the intercultural marriage of your dreams.In Loving Across Borders, find insights into navigating relational, personal, practical, and family challenges that may present themselves in your cross-cultural relationship. Learn author KC‌ McCormick Çiftçi’s framework for working your way through conflicts of all kinds from the inside out.You’ll learn:how to gracefully navigate any conflict through the DIVE frameworkhow (and why) to set boundaries both within and around your relationshiphow to maintain your relationship through the stressful K1 visa process (or any other immigration nightmare)how to talk about sensitive subjects (like sex and money) and why those conversations are a MUSTAn intercultural relationship can feel isolating in the beginning – no one else in your life can understand or relate, so you find yourself opting for silence to avoid being judged or misunderstood. In this book, you’ll find a sister in KC McCormick Çiftçi, sharing her own experience both from her own relationship and as an intercultural coach and community leader. You’ll turn the last page feeling equipped, empowered, and knowing with confidence that you aren’t alone.This book is a great resource for anyone in the process of marrying someone from another country, and it contains lessons and wisdom with applications far beyond.