Dufflyn Lammers and her french husband kissing
The writer, left, sometimes fights with her French husband, right.
  • I'm an American who married a French man, and we live in Paris together.
  • He loves to smoke and doesn't like air conditioning, so we often fight.
  • I frequently remind myself that we just have different backgrounds.

The hardest part about being in a relationship with someone from another country is the cultural divide.

At the beginning of my relationship with Benjamin, I often asked myself, "Is he being a jerk, or is he just being French?"