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"The amount of unhealthy relationships I have been in is getting to a point where it's becoming too much. I don't understand why I just keep on attracting men who aren't good for me."

When two people from two completely different backgrounds come together, the dynamic of the relationship can be an interesting one. You spent your childhood in an all girl boarding school while he went to a public school, you spent your whole life in UK, while he spent his in Australia, and you celebrate Christmas while he celebrates Hanukkah. Whatever the differences may be; religion, language, nationality, race, or socioeconomic class – you find yourself having difficulties understanding his background and vice versa. How do you then make a relationship work with all the cultural differences? What matters most is not about how different you both are but how you will choose to perceive those differences instead.

"He is a very friendly person by nature, meaning he would just be as friendly to girls as he would be to guys. I can kind of get used to him being friendly to everyone but recently his old friend has come back into his life and is now beginning to be his best friend. I'm worried about having her so close to him."

You can share a thousand similarities and break your relationship over one single difference. Continuing our series on bridging the gap, let us share with you some tips on dealing with differences. Today, we'll be talking specifically about differences in personalities.

In all relationships, we are bound to run into differences here and there, no matter who we are with. But, how can we assure that these differences do not fester into an even bigger problem in the relationship? Click to find out some tips and advice on how we can best bridge the gap!

"He is unable to say 'no' to his mom, he has to run things by her first, and he sees no faults in her whatsoever. To be honest, all of those behaviors do not bother me that much but, what hurts me the most is the fact that he compares me to his mom a lot; my cooking, how I clean the house even how I am supposed to be with him as his wife."

We've all been in a position where we feel that we do more than the other party but less appreciated. Most ladies would understand this, but have we ever thought of it from a guy's perspective? Here's a few things that boyfriends do that are taken for granted.