Who didn’t have fun and enjoy the romantic wedding popular reality tv’s Khloe Kardashian marrying her basketball star cavalier, Lamar Odom? There are actually love lessons for interracial dating tips to glean from the Kardashian/Odom wedding.
Apparently over 3.2 million viewers caught the wedding on television, hmmm, making it a very large tv guest list for their beautiful nuptials.
Indeed Khloe and Lamar are another hot celebrity interracial couple.
Other top celebrity interracial marriage couples include…
- Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren
- Heidi Klum and Seal (they are each so fabulous in their own right that single men and single women of all races ate their hats when they wed)
- Derek Jeter is himself the wonderful fruit of an interracial marriage (and he has dated women in a number of different ethnic and racial groups)
Interracial Dating Tips from Kardashian Wedding #1: Don’t worry what your family thinks
For a variety of reasons, including the brevity of their courtship, Khloe Kardasian was concerned how her family and in particular her step-father Bruce Jenner would feel about her engagement and forthcoming nuptials. Yes, it would have been better to have courted longer and allowed more of her step-father’s masculine vetting of Odom.
However, in the long run, what mattered most for the couple?
She was in love and marrying the man of her dreams, Lamar Odom. Over time, her family has come to accept and embrace their wedding union. When your romance is interracial, dating tips wisdom is eventually, your family will see your love and respect for each other and will come around.
Interracial Dating Tips #2: Do Follow your heart
Interracial Dating Tips: Some of the factors which contribute to romantic chemistry are the additional contrasts between cultures and races. Those differences can be fun and fabulous… initially. That initial chemistry which interracial romance can foster is precisely what magnetizes couples to each other so they can communicate and connect sufficiently to create a heart connection as well as a romantic physical chemistry connection.
What will matter most over time will be that you two establish and nurture your heart connection.
Were Khloe and Lamar acting a little fast in becoming engaged after knowing each other less than 1 month? With our current culture’s courting and marriage standards, yes, that was fast. When you consider their social and cultural celebrity world, rapid courtships and rapid wedding can signal rapid divorce.
However, we have only to look back one or two generations to The Great Generation who served in and lived through World War II. Many service men met and married their brides in very short – 1 day, 1 week – time frames. And those couples remain happily married today. They, too, followed their heart and acted on it… quickly.
Interracial Dating Tips #3: Embrace that your love is unique
When you bring two cultures together, two races, two religious backgrounds, you will need to give extra special attention and care to your couple communication. Interracial, inter-religious, and inter-ethnic couples may have special burdens to contend with. The very words you select to use to speak to each other, you will need to define and communicate example stories to illustrate the words connotation to you as well as the denotation. Different words simply mean different things to each person. Those differences are amplified when you are an interracial, multicultural couple.
In addition to double checking the understood meaning of words together, you will need to communicate and check in on what the meaning of certain behaviors is to each of you. Dramatic and effusive behavior may be what to you is basic, average and normal for expressing love in your mind and in your family. Whereas, to your partner, quieter, more internalized behavior combined with intense looks of love may be what you partner does and expect with love. Check in and surface all of those things.
As much as possible, mentally translate the other’s behavior to, “That is how she expresses love to me,” or “That is how he receives love from me.” As as you do so, you will grow closer as a couple
The thing is all of this “additional” communication, that’s the beauty part of interracial and multicultural couple’s relationships. Because your situation especially requires great couple communication, that means your relationship will be closer, more intimate, and more fun as a result of all of that extra communication effort. You two will have more of those special little unique couple jokes over your cultural differences. Your relationship will have deeper connection and deeper roots to draw upon while facing the trials of life.
These interracial dating tips are ones which every couple can practice these dating relationship tips to strengthen and deepen their unique love relationship as well.
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Keri Eagan says
November 13, 2009 at 4:50 PMLOL I love how you refer to Derek Jeter as “wonderful fruit”….
Is it just me, or are the guys/ladies from interracial births waaaay hotter?!
Keri Eagan
April Braswell says
November 13, 2009 at 7:37 PMHi Keri,
thank you for stopping by my blog and commenting.
Oh my GOODness, isn’t that often the case?!
(fanning myself with a feminine lacy hankie)
oh my.
Vive la difference!
April
Darryl Pace says
November 13, 2009 at 7:48 PMIn response to Keri’s comment, I must say that the offspring of interracial couples are some of the best looking people around. The guys are studs and the women are gorgeous!
As for Lamar and Khloe, I wish them the best. After a month’s courtship, chances are they will have their work cut out for them to make their marriage last.
Health, Fitness for Working People — Darryl Pace
Anderson says
November 14, 2009 at 5:33 AMThere will always be people who think you are not doing the right thing, but just follow your gut and you will be right in most cases 🙂 for those married , or in a relationship.
Faye says
November 14, 2009 at 1:13 PMHow ignorant and not true some ppl r cute some aren’t being mixed,white,or light doesn’t matter Nicole Ritchie mixed UGLY,Derek Jetter Okay Looking,Paris Holton Skinny White Always called Hot but she is Ugly, Gabrielle Union all black cute girl,Eva Pigford all black gorgeous ,Khloes two best friends that are black and twins gorgeous so please stop with the mixed,light and white is better Shi!. and that all these Flat A$$ white chicks are hot ie Giselle Bunchen ok face flat a$$ and no Breast Cold not Hot
April Braswell says
November 14, 2009 at 4:32 PMHi Faye,
thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. Indeed, the variety of tastes for what different people find hot is marvelous, isn’t? Means there really is someone for everyone.
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April
Lisa McLellan says
November 14, 2009 at 10:24 PMThis is sound advice. Interracial relationships are still so taboo to some people that often I think people don’t know who to turn to for advice. I have a friend who told me that she was brought up in a home where she was taught that all men were created equal and skin color meant nothing…….until she met a mixed race man and fell in love. She said all of a sudden, the parents that never showed any prejudice whatsoever, now were sort of backtracking. She said how strange it was for them to change their tune after so many years once it came down to a relationship with someone of another race. They have accepted him and love him dearly now, but she said she’ll never forget the look on their faces when she told them about him.
Lisa McLellan
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John Ho says
November 15, 2009 at 4:59 AMGood tips!
Especially the one that “Don’t worry what your family thinks”.
It reminds what Kevin Hogan says to live the life you want, you must not subject yourself to social & cultural pressures. (Keivn’s new book: The 168 Hour Week)
John Ho
JJ Jalopy says
November 15, 2009 at 2:28 PMFaye’s comment above made me laugh! 🙂
Steve Chambers says
November 15, 2009 at 7:57 PMDating advice from Chloe Kardashian…Meet someone, date one month, get pregnant, get married.
I’d place money that within two years (probably one) they will be divorced.
An example? Really?
Steve Chambers
Hezron says
November 20, 2009 at 3:35 AMTo use celebrities as examples of marriage is something I would not do. The topic of interracial relatinonships is controversial to some. I saw a stat on “20/20” that white women will date a black guy if he makes over $75,000 per year.
Ms. Braswell articles here and on her website, IMHO is simply scratching the surface. Through my own experience, many of the white women were just in it to find out “the sexual myths of black men”..if you get my drift. In my opinion, it is rare to see an IR couple that is legit…instead of the mismash I see in celebrity couples such as Lamar Odom and Ms. Kardashian….
As for me, I’m open to dating someone who isn’t black but the reality is where I reside…either I must roll like 50 Cent or pull in a 100,000 year salary.
Martin says
November 22, 2009 at 4:36 AMThey say “Loves Conquers All”, and whilst there may be some additional barriers across cultures, if a couple really do “get” each other (which I’m not always convinced about with celebs) then the barriers will dissolve into nothing. Interesting topical post.
Martin Wright
Cindy says
December 17, 2010 at 4:28 AMthanks amigo! April, this is another great post! I accidentally found your expert dating tips blog and I really benefit from reading it daily.
dawnie says
December 25, 2010 at 11:41 PMGreat work April. I like how you make examples from celebrities. Kewlie!
Integrated Washing Machines says
May 23, 2011 at 4:30 AMInteresting perspective on their wedding to look at interacial couples. Do you have any other like this on your relationship site April?
Jayna Rosenwald says
September 12, 2011 at 4:09 PMLOL, you sure are right. I’ve to say the on the internet dating or electronic dating has come a very long way since the days of straight forward chat rooms. A lot more and far more individuals are turning to on the web dating web sites to display potential dates.
Andrea says
March 31, 2012 at 2:18 AMMany Hollywood celebrities are into an interracial relationship, that’s good since they are setting an example that interracial dating is accepted and it’s okay. I mean, if you really love that person, it doesn’t matter what their race is right?