family deep dive

    I will be discussing some pretty sensitive subjects on this blog.  You might be a little upset with me, and that is totally fine. I'm more than willing to talk about this with you. Just send me a comment and I will talk it out with you. You can dive into the resources I post with each blog to get more information on the topics as well. Prove me wrong for all I care. I respect your freedom of speech and I hope you respect mine, let me say this. This blog is my opinion my freedom of speech, not the opinion of my family or friends. If, for whatever reason, you want to exercise your freedom of speech to lash out at someone over this blog, do so to me, so I can make the adjustments needed. you could have some incite I haven't considered. Please also evade using fall language. This Blog is available to everyone and I will try my best to create an environment of learning.  This will include taking down comments that are offensive, vulgar, or degrading in any way . I hat...

  Just as in any field of social science, marriage is a sticky subject with severely right answers. Everyone agrees though that marriage is unlike anything else you will ever face, and no one is ever a hundred presents ready for it. Just as you can't fully know something, tell your experience. You can't fully know how to handle marriage until you experience it. Many people ask about how to get to marriage, which is a keystone question to marriage. Just as important as getting to marriage though if maybe more important is how to maintain a marriage, and make it better over time. A key point of marriage is knowing, knowing if you like the person, knowing what to do for your kids, and so much more. Knowing though starts before you say yes and after you say I do. It happens at all four levels of relationships. I've touched on the different levels in previous blogs, but to summarise the steps they are dating, courtship, engagement, and the subject of this blog marriage. Many tim...

  The purpose of life is a tough subject to talk about. I know I struggle with it. There are many right answers with many right outcomes. One purpose that many people tend to find in life is their significant other. When we talk about people's significant others, the phrases of, Oh they're dating, or they hang out all the time together, tend to come up. What even is dating? Is it better or worse than hanging out? Why can't I find anyone who wants to go on dates with me? We first have to know what the base definition of what a date is, and what a hangout is. When I say the word date, usually what comes to mind is some romantic dinner, a dance like prom and homecoming, or some super fun activity. Okay, these are all really great dates, but what do they all have in common? They all tend to be paid for, planned ahead, and paired off, so a date is planned ahead, paid for, and paired off. Hanging out on the other tends to be classified as everything that doesn't fit this cate...

  Gender roles aren't important, right? I mean that what we hear from mainstream media is that gender roles, and in general, genders are not significant. I hope that you will take my writing on this subject with a grain of salt and sugar. What I mean by this is to find a takeaway lesson for yourself. However, I'm not a professional in the field of gender roles and gender. Many times we have to deal with delicate problems. Gender roles and gender itself are some of the most delicate issues in our society today. I am a simple-minded person. Please reach out if there is anything I say that is blatantly wrong or confusing to understand. Most likely I wasn't trying to communicate that message. Many times we take the roles gender plays as dominantly nature or dominantly nurture. Nature is simply what you were born with, and nurture is the environment in which you are raised. Many religions also use agency, or choice, as part of the nature and nurture graph to help understand ma...

  “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me” (Fitzgerald, 66). The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, is not the kind of book that typically comes up in a family relations class. However, its message of new money earned by those who made their own fortune, and old money, made by those who inherited their fortune, is relevant to family structure. Along with its message on adjusting to a new class. Through the description of the American class system. The class system is rarely talked about in American daily life, yet it still exists. We took a deep dive into the class system in America during Tuesday's class. The points that were made and my studying before class play perfectly into the story of The Great Gatsby so well. Through the studying and research that I've done. I've seen that there is a divide within the family when it comes to truly being part of the upper class. The...