Trouble Within

Relationships are hard enough as it is without the pressures and judgements of society on the shoulders of it. Within a realtionship, there are things that cause everyday sturggles and obstacles for the couple such as money or or disagreements on household chores. There are certain things people expect to have issues with in a developing relationships...but what if you had to deal with your own realtionship and the internal problems as well the problems society or even family places upon it. Reading another blog on interracial dating, I noticed that this is a common thing for most interracial couples. This couple from GA consisted of a white male and a black female. When they were just friends and seen together, they would get looks or people would make comments; however, it was not until they started dating that things started to get to them. The blog went on to describe how hard it was to deal with opposing family members from both sides as well as the community members that had a problem with couples being different races. Because of contstant scrutiny and hardship from external sources, it makes it a lot more difficult for interracial couples to concentrate on the internal issues between them that every couple has to deal with. This puts an incredible amount of pressure and negativity into the realtionship that otherwise would not have existed. For many couples family, friends, and somtimes other memebers of society provide a support network of people to go to for help and advice. Imagine if the majority of these people did not support the relationship and therefore wanted nothing to do with it. This relationship will have to be ten times stronger on its own, since it has no support network to fall back on. It makes it hard to maintain a happy and healthy relationship when its constantly being torn down and there is no one to turn to for help. Interracial couples make many sacrifices sometimes including their family and friends to be together. Dating interracially is becoming increasingly common and widely more accepted; however, the issues i outlined earlier are still very much so present in much of the US and the world. To read the other blog on interracial couples that this post referred to go to.. http://interracialcouples.blogspot.com/