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Pastel houses stacked on a cliff above the sea at Cinque Terre

CountriesItaly

Dating in Italy

The romance the world imports is largely a tourist-facing performance. What actually shapes dating here is the friend group, the family calendar, and who is paying the rent.

Ana Lucía ReyesMay 14, 20269 min read

A cream-coloured vintage rotary dial telephone on a wooden table

Talking

How to Have Hard Conversations Across Cultures

Direct and indirect styles without the national stereotypes: choosing the moment and the medium, opening well, repairing badly handled ones, and knowing what is unfixable.

Ana Lucía ReyesMay 5, 20269 min read

Two cyclists riding side by side at dusk, reaching out to hold hands

Distance

How to Build a Long-Distance Relationship

Distance doesn't break relationships; drift does. A working system for rhythm, effort, boredom, and the two dates on the calendar that predict who makes it.

Mira HalvorsenApr 28, 20268 min read

Sunlight breaking through the trunks of an autumn forest

Advice

When to End a Relationship That Isn't Working

Two years of flights, a visa half-filed, and a feeling you've been ignoring since spring. How to tell a bad season from a bad match, and how to end it decently.

Mira HalvorsenApr 24, 20268 min read

A hand writing in an open notebook next to a closed red book

International

How to find a partner from another country

Nine steps over roughly a year, from deciding what you actually want to the decision points after the first trip — with a plain marker for what good looks like at each stage.

Mira HalvorsenApr 18, 20268 min read

Two chairs decorated with flowers standing in a circle of petals on grass

Culture

Religion, family, and the expectations set before you arrived

Interfaith and faith/no-faith couples, conversion pressure, which tradition the children get, and what you owe each other if a family never comes round.

Two Timezones EditorialApr 10, 20268 min read

A group of friends leaning in to clink drinks together at a bar

Commitment

Meeting Your Partner's Family Abroad

Gifts, forms of address, whether to help in the kitchen, and what to do when it goes badly — plus the trip nobody writes about, when their family comes to you.

Ana Lucía ReyesMar 27, 20269 min read

A narrow Japanese alley at night lit by red lanterns and neon signs

CountriesJapan

Dating in Japan

How people meet, when a relationship becomes official, who pays, and why being clear about how long you're staying matters more than anything else you do.

Sora TanakaMar 26, 20269 min read

A German old-town street of half-timbered houses with flower boxes

CountriesGermany

Dating in Germany

Nobody asks you out, nobody calls it a date, and the bill gets split to the cent. None of that means what a visitor thinks it means. Here is how it actually works.

Mira HalvorsenMar 19, 202610 min read