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Getting to know each other

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Different contexts bring out different sides of a person. In the nearly 2 years that we’ve known each other,we have lived in 6 different nations, switching between different cultures, communities, housing situations,etc. In that time, we have also developed from being strangers, friends, housemates, dating, engaged, married, and now parents. Each of these aspects calls for certain expectations and reveals something new about us, as we adapt to the circumstances they make up.  There is a multitude of different ways to get to know someone, both in the way the knowledge is received and in the way that the person is understood. People are inherently complicated, but the coolest part of getting to know someone is not really knowing them, but the “going on a journey” with them and sharing in their journey. As we have traveled together in the past year or so “the journey” has become much more important than our preferences, in that the preferences are a given, but the journey is continually s
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Grieving Singlehood

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 To introduce ourselves, we're a young, multicultural couple. He's American, and she's Swedish.  We met just over 18 months ago in a small town in the south of France.  Since then we have traveled - more in the last year than a lot of people will ever do their whole lives - if the theme of ‘transition’ doesn’t capture our lives together so far, there are very few other terms that might do a better job.  In these months, we’ve lived in 6 different countries: Got engaged in one, married in another. And our family of two will become three in yet another country; in a month's time.  We don’t say this to boast, but to summarize how our lives have been.  Transition is almost never easy and frequently comes with stages of grief, anxiety, joy, and excitement.  While marriage, covenant, and family make up something that’s pretty amazing, that doesn’t mean that giving up singlehood is easy.  As we’re preparing for what is probably the greatest transition so far - that of parentho
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