Here's the story how we - two sisters from Germany - found our mission to help

intercultural couples:​

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Hi, I'm Mareike. My sister Kim and I both grew up in Munich, Germany, but always had

a deep fascination for other cultures and countries and this shows in the places we’ve

lived (USA, China, Dubai, Colombia, France and Singapore) but also in our dating life (India,

USA, Tunisia, Italy, Venezuela).​

 

We also both spent a year abroad at INSEAD, an international business school, where – two years apart from each other – we not only shared a classroom with over 70 different nationalities, but also met our now-husbands.​

Shortly after I finished my year at INSEAD in 2014, I kept thinking about all the intercultural couples who had formed during that time and within both our group of friends.​

 

I couldn’t help but think that intercultural relationships were different, surely more complex than monocultural ones.

 

Wouldn’t it be cool to write a book about that? I thought and I jotted down a few first thoughts.​

But then life happened, Kim and I had kept busy at work, moved abroad here and there, got married, first pregnancies, but the idea always stuck in the back of my mind. I didn’t quite know where to channel it to. A book. Maybe a blog. How to start?​

 

Meanwhile Kim and I were both first moms and we realized how much it helped us to share our experiences with each other of making life between cultures work.​To just have someone to listen to the misunderstanding we had had the other day with our partner. The challenges when it came to distributing time between our two countries, our families. Overcoming language barriers. The question where to live. For now we were both living in Munich again, but moving to Spain, Italy or somewhere completely different was always on the horizon.​

 

Community is key, I thought.​

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So after my second pregnancy I knew I wanted to bring our vision to life. With Kim’s experience as an international project manager and mine as a consultant, trainer, coach and lecturer, I knew that we had the tools we needed.​

 

So in 2022 we launched “A Couple of Cultures”, a business dedicated to supporting intercultural couples and families with community, advice, resources and coaching programs.​

In 2023 we launched our first group coaching program, a 6-week course for intercultural couples or partners, going deep into the topics of mindset, conflict management, culture shock, creating a cultural identity as a couple and taking big decisions.​

 

Our newest project is The Couple of Cultures Club, our membership program, where in addition to the course, where you learn all the skills you need, you'll also get access to a supportive community as well as a pool of expert couples and family coaches to talk you through everyday small or life-changing big problems.​