Relationships Within the Family

          Is it Halloween already?!   Holy cow this year is flying by.   It never fails to surprise me how quick time really does pass.   Amidst all the spooks and scares this week, my class kept chugging along with the message of families and their roles in society.   This week we talked about transitions in marriage.   It was a really important message and concept that I think everyone needs to hear and understand, especially with the rates of divorce we have in our society.   Hopefully I am able to help clarify understanding on this topic, if not that, at least spark some interest to learn more about it.   This topic is vital for every single one of us to understand and apply in our individual lives and marriages.   Doing so would most definitely help us all to be better people, enabling us to lift our marriages to higher places than wherever they may currently sit. You may or may not be familiar with the term “t...

Hey everyone!   Here goes another week for the family blog!   Hopefully everything is going right for you guys, because it sure has been a rollercoaster ride for me. This week in class was definitely an experience.   I have felt pretty strongly lately that I need to be getting into the dating game for whatever reason, and it just so happened to also be the topic of discussion in our class this week.   What a coincidence.   So to kick everything off, we started by examining what dating consists of within society, and how it has changed over the last 20 years.   I am sure that you are all aware, that back in the day, dating was a very formal experience.   The man would ask the woman out, they would do something formal, he would pay for her, and that was it.   It was simply a date.   There was a point where that dating would develop into a courtship, what we would now classify as a relationship, however, the point of dating was not to find s...

  Another week, another blog.   Here we are again bonding through my homework assignments.   Isn’t that great.   So this one is going to be kind of tough to do in a way that will not rub anyone the wrong way.  I ask you to remember, that I try my best to come across as being unbiased.  I will simply share with you what we went over in class.  This week, we spoke about gender roles, which for the last many years, has been kind of a hot topic. I will say, first off, I learned A LOT.  It was actually a really interesting subject for me!  I watched a video in preparation about whether or not society has influenced men and women in ways that puts them in their “acceptable areas of performance” I guess you could say.  Now before I proceed, let me say that I am indifferent on this point, especially after watching the video.  It was really efficient in showing the benefits of both sides of the opinion spectrum of gender roles and equali...

Hey everyone!   Hope you are all still hanging in there with everything going on in this crazy messed up world of ours.   I will be the first to say that I am definitely getting kind of tired of all the chaos and confusion out there.   I share that quick little thought with you not because I want to rant for a sentence, but because I truly believe that the family is one of the secrets to fixing everything going on right now.   Think about it.   If families across the board stayed strong, structured, and taught good values, so many of our current challenges would be averted.   People would know better how to respect and love one another.   We would be faster to hear each other out and not just go directly to the hate filled speech that has become the “norm.”   Structure within a healthy family is definitely what keeps society going straight.   I truly believe that.   That is why this week I am going to be discussing structure within the f...

Hey everyone! I hope your week has been absolutely fantastic! Here I am again just blogging away my deepest secrets.   Its been an interesting week in my family relations class.   Not in the sense of popular topics, but more so about how families interact within themselves, and all the subconscious roles/actions that happen without being noticed.   As you can tell from the title, we spoke about popular family theories.   It was quite interesting learning about the “behind the scenes” of families.   Here’s some of the notes/points that we discussed.   Exchange Theory Exchange Theory is essentially about when someone puts out lower effort than the rewards they expect.   This does not mean that they are intentionally withholding effort within the family, but that they are keeping themselves reserved.   They fear putting out more than they will get in return.   Obviously, this is not the healthiest family relationship, but I think it may be...