Multigenerational living is more common than most assume. Pew puts it at 18 percent of the U.S. population in 2021, up from 7 percent in 1971.
For an interracial couple, the friction is rarely the arrangement. It is which cultural default the household will quietly slide into. Avoiding that conversation usually means the partner with more cultural permission to ask wins.
The exit conversation is the one couples least often rehearse.

