Family relations

  Hello and welcome back to my blog. I want to talk about something today that some people may agree with by others might not and either way is fine. These are my opinions and I never expect everyone to believe what I do. I want to talk about the roles of mothers. I know some people believe that a mother should stay at home with the children and her main role is to be a homemaker. I know many young women who this is a goal for them. They want nothing more then to be a wife and a stay at home mother. However, I know a lot of young women who have the motivation to go to school and to have a career and still be a mother. I also know a lot of young women who don’t want children at all. I think each three of these are perfectly acceptable. I think every woman should have the opportunity to choose that for herself. I personally would love to be a wife and a mother and still have a career. This past summer I was home from collage due to COVID-19. My aunt and her husband are considered ess...

  Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. I wanted to talk about something I think is important in every relationship, communication. I would like to really focus on communication in romantic relationships. I think communication is key to any successful relationship. In a relationship, communication allows you to explain to someone else what you are experiencing and what your needs are. The act of communicating not only helps to meet your needs, but it also helps you to be more connected in your relationships. Communication allows you to express your emotions to you partner. I was in a situation where someone close to me expected me to do something I was not comfortable doing and I did not know he even wanted me to do this. I need to collect my thoughts and emotions about the subject, but I was honest with him and communicated what I was feeling with him. Because of this we were able to have an honest, open conversation about the topic and we came to a conclusion. Had I not spo...

  Hello, welcome back to my blog. Today I would like to talk about stress within families. Family stress is defined as a disturbance in the steady state of the family system. The disturbance can emerge from the outside or inside the family. Family stress can come from being under a lot of pressure, facing big changed, worrying about a problem, not having any or much control over the outcome of a situation, having responsibilities that you’re finding overwhelming, not having enough work, activities, or change in your like, financial hardships, death, divorce, and work. Many families are affected by multiple stressors at any given time. My personal family has been faced with many of these. My family has experienced the death of love one’s multiple times throughout my life. I have had all my great grandparents die in my lifetime, and many cousins. These stressors can cause a lot of chaos on a family unit. I remember when one of my cousins died when I was nine years old. This cousin wa...

  Hello everyone. Welcome back to my blog. I wanted to state that what I talk about is my opinion and I never expect someone to agree with me. I wanted to talk about something that didn’t sit right with me this week. I was in my class for family relations and my teacher was talking about couples having sex and the bonding that is causes, however he did not call it sex, he called it love making. He referred to it as love making every time. I personally think it is so important to call sex, sex and not give it a different name. As a child development major, I think about how it is so important that we teach children the correct terminology for their body parts. Also, as a member of the church of Jesus Christ of the latter-day saints I think it is important to call sex what it is. In my religion it is common for couples to not have sex until after marriage. Because of this sex is a taboo topic that no one wants to talk about. In my religion they do talk about the importance of sex and...

  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...