I moved to Spain and started dating a Spaniard. We've had culture clashes I never would've expected.
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I moved to Spain and fell in love with a Spanish man. I thought my Spanish fluency would make it easier, but we've had big cultural misunderstandings.
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I started dating my Spanish boyfriend several months after moving to Spain.Selena TempletonTwo years ago, I moved to Spain, and began dating a Spaniard several months in.We had some immediate cultural clashes, mostly around communication and our argument styles.I've learned that being fluent in a language doesn't necessarily make communication easy.I'd spent years learning Spanish before I moved to Spain, but once I arrived, I realized how much further I had to go before I could call myself fluent.I consider myself "conversationally adjacent"; I'm a few neighborhoods over from fluent, but I still get lost.So, when I started dating a Spaniard six months into moving here, I was fully prepared for regular vocabulary deficits and butchered grammar (especially with my archenemy, the subjunctive).What I didn't expect was that even when I understood every word, I could still misunderstand the meaning behind it — because language was only part of the equation.I was shocked when he called me…