I moved to Finland for love… How might this impact my relationship?

I’m a psychotherapist who specializes in working with intercultural couples. In my work, I’ve learned that these couples have to deal with many unique stressors on top of the normal relationship challenges. I ended up doing a small-scale study on this topic, and one of the things that came up was a desire for a handbook of sorts. This handbook would be something that would let people know ahead of time what types of challenges they may end up facing as they contemplate a move to one partner’s home country, and- maybe even more importantly- let them know that they’re not alone, and that there’s nothing wrong with them or their relationship. There are simply additional stressors that arise from being from different cultures and then settling into one partner’s home country. I’ve actually contemplated writing such a handbook, but, at least for now, I’ve settled on this blog as I felt that it would be a low-threshold, easy way to make this accessible to as many people as possible. I’m going to cover topics that come up the most frequently at my practice, with posts as often as I’m able, so hopefully this would become a helpful tool to those who may be struggling and feeling alone! As a side note, I’m writing these particular posts specifically for those couples where one partner grew up in Finland and the other one did not, and they then decided to move to Finland together. I’m focusing on Finland, since this is where my experience is from, but I would believe that similar challenges would likely be present no matter the country.