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Week 12. Last blog!!!

  Today in class we talked about what typically causes divorce and how it affects the children and people involved. We started by talking about what are common causes of divorce, we were able to discuss quite a few. One of the first things that were brought up was “falling out of love” which I thought was the most common, two people that loved each other before but over time they have lost those feelings that they felt before. We also mentioned “lack of communication”, one of the people would start getting mad or frustrated at the other and bottle it up inside, not expressing how they feel, which prevented them from growing as a couple. We talked about a few other reasons such as cheating, pornography, and money problems but one thing that we talked about surprised me a little or I guess I've never thought about it, Substance abuse. I know that drinking could lead to events that could cause divorce, but we talked about weed and what it does to the person and their brain. According ...
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Week 11

  Today in class we were able to talk about parenting. Our goals as parents should be not to only have our kids survive but to want them to thrive. Of course, in class we talked about a few things I did not think about. We talked about how it affects the child when someone else watches them more than you. When you have a Nany or someone watching your kids, they tend to get more attached to the Nany, that’s who they spend all their time with and that’s who they trust. We are encouraged as parents to spend as much time with our children as we can, they look up to us for the first few years of their lives, we are technically their world. When they are first born their brains are so mold able , what we do and don’t do can affect how they live and grow up. We also talked a lot about children that tend to be more attention seekers due to the lack of affection in their home. My teacher was able to share a story about this kid in his church back home. There was this kid that would alw...
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Week 10

Self-reliance and becoming one with someone else. In class today I felt like we covered a very important topic, becoming one with someone and keeping God involved. Sometimes it's hard for us to trust other people, to truly lean on them for help. Developing trust in someone else is very important in a successful relationship, giving them all you have brings you both closer together. Generally, we don’t feel comfortable in asking people for help, it’s a lot easier to give help to them to receive help. That’s interesting, why would we feel more comfortable giving than receiving? If we look at the savior, he was a very loving and caring person, willing to help everyone regardless of their situation. It’s because the savior has unconditional love for all his children, he is willing to do all he can to help us. Being Self-reliant you need to have self-love, being able to love yourself and willing to trust yourself that you can do what is needed and keeping the savior involved. For some...
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Week 9

  This week in class we talked about the importance of communication in a relationship. Good communication can keep two people together if it is handled correctly. Communication is showing someone how you feel, opening to a person and expressing your thoughts and feelings. Also, how you handle and receive what they are trying to express to you can affect the outcome of the situation. We were able to talk about what it takes to truly understand how a person is feeling when they are talking to you, words are 14% of communication, tone is 35% of communication, and non-verbal communication is 51% (actions you make when speaking). We can lose or miss understanding a person when we are just texting or talking on the phone, we lose the emotion that the person is trying to convey especially if they are feeling angry or sad. Texting you are not able to type on how feel in just one message, there are types of texts you can send to try and express how you feel like ALL CAPS for being angry or...
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Week 8

  This week in class we talked about stress and how easily it can affect the family and the relationships within. We were able to discuss what can cause stress and what can prevent it. We were able to talk about the difference between stress and distress. It can be stressful when you do not know what the day is going to be like, but you are not distressed about it. We can benefit from our hard and stressful times because we learn from our hard times and trials, people who have never had emotional difficulties will have a hard life. Like with the gospel, the Lord will give us trials in this life, they help us grow and to make us stronger, which also makes our relationship with God better and better. When people get married the marriage should have the two and God should have a big hand in the marriage as well, he is there to help lead and guide you, he will give you opportunities for you guys to grow stronger together. We should involve the lord in our stressful situations, he will ...
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week 7

  This week in class we talked about something that is kind of awkward to talk about, I only talked about it with a few people but defiantly not random people on the internet. This week in class we talked about sexual relations between you and your spouse, what goes on, and why. When a man and a woman who love each other have sex they should have an idea of why things happen and to know that it is totally normal. We started off by talk about when a man and a woman come to a “climax” during sex it is different for the man and the woman. A man can climax a lot quicker than the woman, they tend to have pleasure early and fast when having sex then slowly get less and less “hot”. For a woman it talks longer to climax, when they climax, they can have multiple when having sex and it take them longer to get less and less “hot”. Knowing this is important for both men and woman. In order to get to this, point a woman needs to feel safe, close, and warm in order to be comfortable with having...
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Week 6

  Getting engaged to someone is a very big step in a relationship. How can you show that person that you are truly committed to them? Being committed to someone is very important in a marriage, showing them true love and compassion is a necessary commitment. In class this week we were able to talk about what commitment means and the importance of a proper engagement. Going about marriage was very different years ago. In today's day we seem to talk about marriage, plan, and get engaged based on popularity. Making sure the engagement gets recorded and people can tell you have cute it is and things like that, that’s not how the engagement should be. An engagement should be something personal between the two and something special that they are able to look back on later in the marriage.   My teacher was able to share with us how he proposed to his wife. He told us that many ideas passed through his mind of what he wanted to do, he wanted it to be meaningful and he wanted to le...
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