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 help us through these times because he loves every one of us. Getting married alone gives people a lot of stress which has the opportunity for the relationship to grow together or apart. After marriage it is very common for the married couple to be very broke, finally being on their own. The Resorces we have available might make a difference in what we experience too, the situations that we are put in influence our lives and our outcomes. My teacher was able to share an experience from his family growing up that affected his life in a big way. I won’t give the details of the story due to the personal it was but due to a few things that happened in the family, his father starting to work more, which started some of their problems as a husband and a father. He was never home and never was able to spend time with his wife, he couldn’t make his wife feel warm, close, and safe. These aspects affected their family, after some accident that happened in the family is father decided to take work off to spend more time with his family. It showed his wife that he cared, he wanted to be there for his family in this time of need, there was still a small wall built up due to his actions in the past, but they started to come back together and feel each other's love. Being stressed and how you deal with it can affect people who are single as well. People who work more than 20 hours a week and are full-time students do better than people with no jobs. Students perform better when they are working. Pressure helps you be more independent; you can manage your life much better and learn from your experiences. How we apply what we are given will affect our decisions and outcomes. We get to choose what we time and how we look at our outcomes regardless of the situation. Depending on how we look at our problems it can affect us in many ways, when we get married it’s the same way. We need to choose to learn from our experience, take the opportunity to grow and become closer to one another and with God. I hope that the people reading this can understand the message I am trying to put out there, we can choose, we also choose how we look at the situation. Thank you for reading and I hope you were able to learn something.