Family relations

  Hello, and welcome back to my blog. As I have said before what I write is my opinion and if you do not agree with that, that is ok. I don’t ever want to offend someone with what I say. I want to talk again today about dating. Last week I talked about how dating has changed and how more people feel like they owe others a commitment after only a few dates. This week I would like to talk about the effects that dating can have on your marriage. My profess, said something that has stuck with me this week. He said you should never stop dating (your spouse) even after you are married. I think it is important to keep dating your spouse because it shows that you still care. When you are just dating someone before marriage, you typically aren’t living with them, so anything you do for that person is special because you are going out of your way to show them you love and care for them. I think once you get married it is easy to stop doing the little things. I think when you are married you ...

  Hello, and welcome back to my blog. As always, I would like to remind everyone that what I write is just my opinion and if you don’t agree that’s just fine. Today I want to talk about dating. I think dating has changed a lot in the last thirty years. My parents have been married for thirty-one years. They met when my dad was 18 years old and he got a job working for my grandpa. My mom met him that way and then they started dating and the rest was history. My oldest sister met her husband in 2007 when they were in high school and have been dating ever since. My other sister met her boyfriend in 2013 on a blind date, that was set up by mutual friends. These are “normal” ways of meeting someone, but I have a lot of friends who met boyfriends/girlfriends on a dating website. This is what our society has considered to be the new “normal”. The thing I really do not like about dating websites is that you are deciding on if you want to go on a date with someone depending on their looks a...

  Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Like I have said before what I write about is my opinions and I do not expect everyone to agree with me and that ok. Today I want to talk about something that might be a little hard for people to hear but it is just a topic that has been discussed a lot and I would like to give my two cents too. I want to talk about if being apart of the LGBTQ+ community is a choice or not. I grew up and was attracted to men and no one told me I had to like men or women, that is just what happened. I did not have a choice. I have always been attracted to men. I can’t help but think that is the same for people who are apart of the LGBTQ+ community. I was interested and decided to talk to one of my close friends who is lesbian. I asked her to share her story with me. She explained to me that from a young age she knew she was attracted to women. She said it was hard to come to terms with that, because she felt like she was doing something wrong. She grew up i...

  Hello! Welcome back to my blog. As I have mentioned before what I write is my opinion and my intentions are never to offend anyone. If you don’t agree with me that is ok. Today I want to talk about affection within the family. I came from an extended family where if you didn’t say hi and give everyone a kiss on the cheek you were disrespectful. If you forgot to say hi to a family member there was going to be drama. My immediate family gives hugs when we haven’t seen each other in a while, and kisses on the cheek when we leave. When we were younger my mom would come into our rooms and night and give us kisses. This was just normal to us and we didn’t know any different. I didn’t know that in different families this was not as common, and this made me wonder if this had any effect on the children in the families that don’t show as much affection and emotion to each other. According to one study families who showed more affections made their children more sensitive and more in tune ...

  Hello, welcome to my blog. Like I have said before I am sorry if I offend anyone. That is never my intentions. I would also like to remind people that what I write is my opinion and I do not intend for everyone to agree with me. Today I would like to talk about gender roles in families. This is a topic that I think is changing every day.   In the 1950s family you would have a mother, a father, and children. The mother/wife would stay home all day and cook and clean. She would be responsible for taking care of the children’s needs and make sure that by the time her husband arrived home that dinner was ready to go. She was supposed to make sure that her families image stayed positive in the eyes of her community. A woman was supposed to be a caring, hardworking homemaker and obedient wives. They were supposed to depend on their husband to make the money to support their family. The father/husband role was to be the head of the house/sole provider for his family. He was expecte...