TESTIMONY
For almost 30 years, Anne and her husband have been a mixed couple and are 19 years apart. She says that their diversity and their age difference posed a problem for her family at the start of their relationship. At the microphone of Olivier Delacroix, on "La Libre antenna" of Europe 1, Anne talks about the difficulties she and her husband encountered because of their cultural differences, but above all she celebrates their love which gave birth to five children .
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"My husband is from Martinique. We are a mixed couple and we also have a big age gap. We are 19 years apart. It was not a problem for us. It was a problem for others, especially in my family. When I was in my twenties, I was already living with my future husband and one of my uncles told me: "If you marry a black or an Arab, I will slash you and I will break him. both legs. ”It was not easy with my mom, because my husband is two years younger than her.
At first my husband and I were friends. He has a deep kindness that makes him attractive. This great friendship has turned into love, without our knowledge. Things just happened naturally. If I had been told that one day I would fall in love with him and have children, I would not have believed it. These are two hearts and two minds who have met, who have loved each other and who have always loved each other for over 27 years. We have five children.
" You have to accept that the other is different "It is not without difficulties, but there is a deep love beyond our discords. The difficulties we may have had come from the fact that we come from two different cultures. His family was of a matriarchal culture, while my culture is patriarchal. It was complicated when our children were born. He was going to work, while I struggled at home with the children. He was in his reality and I in mine.
He would go away for hours. He was unaware of the frustration he had generated. I have spent my life waiting for it. We must accept that the other is different and that he has a different way of thinking than himself. You cannot force someone to be something they are not. I love my husband because I know what he is worth inside. Despite these things that annoy me, there is a lot of love and patience. We bicker every day, but we have a lot of self-deprecation. The main thing is that we continue our journey together.
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I really like Martinique. It is an island that is in my heart, because it is linked to my husband. It is very beautiful. It is another living environment. There is this notion of sharing that we lose in metropolitan France. My husband is 70 but he doesn't. It is robust. What I like about him is his personality. There is something about him that makes me love him deeply and will love him until my last breath. "