Ralph LaRossa's (2012) article on the multidimensional world of qualitative research provides family scientists with a set of innovative tools to guide writing and reviewing. He proffered an engaging challenge: to view the "Journal of Marriage and Family" ("JMF") as a meeting place of scholars, a thought community (Zerubavel, 1997), even a culture of its own. The dimensions in LaRossa's article did provide a map for publication in "JMF," but they also hinted at what lies below in the "real" territory: a dynamic and shifting set of cultures that constitute this journal community, other journal communities, and family science in the midst of other disciplines in the social sciences. In this response, the author explores the implications of LaRossa's dimensional map for movement into the territory of rigorous social science. As a researcher locates herself along the uniquely qualitative dimensions of research, she also revises and reworks research to address standards for data quality and data analysis that have traditionally divided scholars into methodological camps. She confronts a dilemma of whether she should "emulate basic principles in quantitative social sciences in establishing standards of evidence for qualitative work" (Small, 2009, p. 6). The author discusses how LaRossa's dimensions offer a new shared language with which to readdress the long-standing barriers in both of these methodological domains.