Our culture impacts our daily lives, and with cross-cultural romantic relationships, meeting your partner's parents can create anxiety (Montagne, 2011). According to the authors of Communicating with Strangers, romantic love is less likely to be considered an important reason for marriage in collectivistic cultures than in individualistic ones. Comparing individualistic cultures, such as the United States, and collectivistic cultures found in Asia, shows that with collectivistic cultures, having a family tends to be the primary reason for marriage. If having a family is the most important consideration, the acceptability of the potential mate to the family is paramount, while individualistic cultures take pride in marrying a partner for love (Gudykunst & Kim,