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[quote=Anonymous]Neither of you will change so give up on trying to change your spouse. I come from such a culture, and I am punctual myself, and I cannot count the number of times I’d be meeting a group of friends and sitting for about 1/2 an hour alone at a restaurant waiting for the others to show up. And it’s not rude, it’s just the perception of timeliness. To you, 8:00 pm is the deadline to show up. For your spouse, they perceive it as “from 8:00 pm”. So, repeat after me: your spouse will not change. This is too ingrained. So adapt. When it really matters, give your spouse an earlier time. You know the event is at 8, you need to leave at 7:30, so tell your spouse you guys need to leave at 6:45. Or just tell your spouse to be ready at 6:45. Also, it’s completely fine to arrive separately - much better than for you to be standing there fuming, and for you to be having fights over this.[/quote]
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