The Ideal Family?

One thing that I admire about my parents was their ability to raise eleven children that all turned out to be outstanding people. Now most of my brothers and sisters are successful business owners or doctors and they all have families that still go to church and are very strong in the gospel. Now doing what my brothers and sisters do it was ultimately their choice but since my parents raised them they had a very big impact on what they learned and what they did and how the grew up. However as I've communicated and talk to my older brothers and sisters I have found out that they contribute most of their success to the things that they learned while they were young and at home under the guidance of our parents. I found that really interesting because here they are very successful and what they do and they had more years away from home then they did at home and more time to think for themselves, learn at school, and at work, but yet they contribute most of their success to our parents...

As human beings we learn to deal with stress in many ways. This is called coping. there are many different types of coping forms. Good ones, bad ones, healthy ones, not healthy ones. What is coping exactly? Coping is doing something that will help you ignore something that's important or that you're dealing with at the time. According to google - “Coping  is defined as what people do to try to minimize stress and is commonly seen in health psychology as problem-focused, that is, directed at reducing the threats and losses of the illness, or emotion-focused, namely directed at reducing the negative emotional consequences”  Now that makes coping sound good and it can be a good thing. However there are many different ways that people cope that are not so good and not so healthy. For example I have a friend and she copes with emotional stress and emotional pressure by cutting herself. Now this isn’t so great mentally or physically. How there are other forms of coping that are...

I love this quote from Humpty Dumpty that helps explain the complexity of communication, it goes like this “when I use a word it means what I choose it to mean neither more nor less”-Lewis Carroll’s ‘Looking through the Glass’. What Humpty Dumpty was saying here could not have been more wrong, communication is so complicated. It would be nice if it was a simple as choosing a word to mean what you want it to mean and having everybody understand what you're talking about or what you're meaning or even what you're feeling. However this is simply not the case. Along with verbal communication there are also many different types of nonverbal communication. Even with just verbal communication there are many different ways to express something, how you say it, or how you present it, could mean very well the opposite of what you were saying. For example, in our Laura Laura Chapter 9. It gives the example of saying I love you now depending on how you say it, it could mean something q...

When you get married you have new responsibilities and one of them is making your partner feel loved comforted and good. now it's really important to let your partner know how much you love and care for them while you are making love to them. physical intimacy is very important in marriage. You have to learn to be able to satisfy each others needs. It is also a new thing for some people. Even if it isn't new or you are new to having intimate relationships with other people there is always room for improvement. communication is probably one of the most important aspects of this physical part marriage. However young and inexperienced people tend to think that sex and intimacy is pretty simple. According to therapists you would be surprised my how many people don't feel satisfied or safe or comforted during sex. Sex may be a great experience or activity for fun but it also has a great significance in bringing husband and wife together. if done right it's not only a recreat...

Marriage is important, fun, exciting, maybe a little scary at first. So how can we prepare and make our marriages stay fun and last and have a good marriage. Well first off preparing for a good marriage comes well before actually getting married. It starts off with who you date and how you date them we kind of already talked about this in one of my previous blogs. It's important to go on many dates many different dates with the same person in order to get to know them in different areas. And once you've done this you can then decide if you feel like you are very compatible with the person or not as compatible. Once you've done this and accepted this person proposed to them the next step would be engagement. Now each one of these steps is really important to successful marriage. A successful engagement would be planning. You want to plan your goals and life missions, where you want to live, your wedding! Also during these stages you want to demonstrate hopefully what you dem...

  So what is the meaning of dating? Well first off we should define what kind of dating it is that we are doing. For me there are at least three types of dating. One is causal dating. Causal dating is having a planned activity where you go out with multiple different people of interest to learn more about them and to make friends and to have a good time. Steady dating is another type dating. It pretty much the same as the causal  dating except you take the same person out every time and you are seeing if you if you want to spend the rest of you life with time. It’s the new courting. The other type of dating is just dating. Which is like causal dating and steady dating all in one. This form of dating is supposedly the healthiest type of dating. It’s like the same type if dating that they did why back when the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing didn’t really existe. When you would date everyone until you decide to court someone. I have my doubts with this system. But that’s for an...