Family relationships

  There are two people at a table. One is just talking the other's ear off about different things in their lives. Meanwhile, the other person is just sitting there just letting them. Then for some reason, the first seems to freak out. Then the other responses angrily back, trying to defend themselves, and it just exploded out until neither one is happy with the other. What do you think happened? Why are they now angry at each other? Why did communication break down? Well, there are many reasons that it ended the way it did. One could have been the first person asked the other a question and just got an Ok sure answer from them, or they rolled their eyes out of boredom. For whatever reason, the second one communicated something and the first felt angered by it. When the second was confronted, the second person decided to defend themselves, and it escalated from there. We are people that love communication, and we always will, but if we aren't careful with our communication it ...

  Life is like a river ride. Sometimes it passes us by quickly, other times it passes peacefully and can let us enjoy the good in life, but other times it hits the rapids and can pull us under. The world as a whole has gone through a tough rapid that has pulled many of us under and still has a grasp on others. As people work their way to get out of this riptide, new ways of thinking need to be prepared to deal with all the things that come with finding a way onto the next section of the river. This rapid was a pandemic. It hit hard and fast. In years to come, people will look back at the pandemic and wonder how we made it through or wonder why it happened. We are dealing with the backlash of it now and all the pain and confusion it brings. Things have changed; we now can work from home and online schooling has expanded and many other social structures have changed. During times of change, it is normal for stress to come, and it is a natural response to change. Overcoming stress is ...

  Relationships are a complicated subject and seem to change for each couple. So when someone asks about what is a healthy relationship, you will get many answers to that question. Some base it on how successful the couple is, others say it is how much fun they have together, and lastly, is how intimate they are with each other. I feel that each of these things should be judged divinely at different stages of a relationship. This means that both members should have a say in what's best for their lives. People see the photos and the vacations, and how fancy a gift may be for your significant other, but is that a true way to look at what success is for a relationship? In my opinion, successful relationships are ones where you can see how much they want the other to grow and reach the goals they set. A couple that is working together to reach for their dreams is always happier than one that is just having fun with each other. This is because once the hard times come, they will come. T...

  Marriage and kids are usually closely tidied by others. They both have effects on how people act and treat one another. These things redefine our lives. They can teach us many lessons and put strains on the bounds we had made before marriage or family. As strain is put upon people, it causes them to change how they feel about things. Sometimes they become angry or try to separate themselves from the problems. Each person acts definitely on how stress affects them. In this blog, I'm going to talk about simple things that cause stress in a relationship that more people need to note and talk about with their spouses as they try to work together. The first thing that I have seen that causes stress among couples through marriage is communication. When people don't plan together, they wonder why the other person is doing something they weren't expecting for the family and may get upset about it. Secondly, I have noticed that family traditions can cause anger and disagreement am...

Dating is full of stress. I'm pretty sure many people can remember the stress of their first date. This stress and pressure come when planning, asking, and going on a date. Here are just a few examples of things that affect people that are going to date someone, whether it's just one time or consistently. These things will pressure them as long as they are dating. Some of them are social pressure and others are things that we put on ourselves. The thing I have noted that caused a feeling of pressure was the feeling that they are way out of their league, so you can't ask them. We are always overthinking what is necessary for a date. Lastly, the pressure that you are going to possibly marry this person. These put pressure on dating and make it, so people are scared or unconfident about dating. People are always comparing things to other things, putting things into groups or categories as we go through our daily lives. We do this with people we know and people we just see pass...

  Is the right turn the right way to go right now? This world is full of words and each of them has many meanings. In one sentence there are ways to use right three times and each of them means a slightly different definition based on how it is seen in the context of the texts. That is how things are. We give labels and titles to things and try to describe those things with words. Sometimes we give a tile to something just because we feel that that is what best fits what we are looking at. Even Columbus made that mistake when he first landed here in the Native Americas. He called the natives India, and it has stuck all these years even though they have never even been to India. Why do labels and words hurt? They have so many definitions that we should be able to interpret them  in many ways but stick. They slowly try to define what people are, and we sometimes change to become what people call us. Labels change a person's culture and stick them in a box of what that word means...

  People fight over this, and we draw lines in the sand because of this. At times, it allows us to connect and find some ground as well. This thing is so hard to fully understand because it changes as time goes on. The world has made art, music, and writing.  These things have been changed by this. We have people that try to understand forgotten ones and others that try to erase them. I'm talking about culture. We are all developing our own as we grow, and we take things from others as we do. Culture is good at times, but at other times they need to be changed or forgotten. In my life I have things that I do that I feel come from my mom and other times I do things like my dad and that was the culture I was raised in. One of the things that I learned from both of them is that life is hard and we need to always look for a way through it. This part of my family culture on the services would look like a good way to live, but there are things that I have seen from my parents that t...