Insights and Perspectives

 Hello Everyone! This week was great to learn about topics that seem to be more common each year. The topics that I learned about were pornography and infidelity. I have heard more in the past few years about people in my life who have found out about infidelity or pornography in their marriage. It is always so sad to hear about and honestly makes me nervous at times to take the step into marriage. Many stories I've heard talk about how marriage was good in the beginning and then infidelity crept in or pornography was introduced with one of the spouses. When we think about our world today, it isn't super surprising that infidelity and pornography are such big issues now. Most every movie or tv show has romance and those relationships often can start with one person being dishonest and starting a new relationship with another person. There are also relationships that often end and never show the positive aspects of becoming more serious in a relationship and progressing toward m...

 Hello everyone! This week I learned more about the transitions that can happen when a couple is married. There are specific adjustments and steps that often happen in the first few months of marriage. Those adjustments, whether expected or unexpected can also happen one year into the marriage as well. I am not married but I imagine that throughout major milestones and changes in marriage, there will be adjustments that need to happen. One major milestone in a marriage could be a child entering the family. This has the potential to completely change the dynamic of the husband and wife because of the new commitments to the child. When a child leaves the home it may take adjustments for the husband and wife as well. Some examples of adjustments that have to be made during the first month of marriage included: sharing the same space, eating habits, budgeting, sleeping habits, cleanliness, spirituality, communication styles. There are many more but these were specific examples tha...

 Hello everyone! This week I learned a lot about dating. This is a topic that a few years ago I would have thought was weird to spend two days in a lecture class learning about. But with more experience with dating and life in general, I have found that learning more about dating can be very beneficial. Dating in my mind is a way to have fun, learn more about yourself and others and ultimately prepare for marriage. Marriage is something that I want and I see dating as a stepping stone to marriage in my life. I understand that many people view dating very differently today. Some people aren't looking to get married and date for a variety of reasons that would be contrary to what I understand dating to be. I learned a few interesting things about dating this week that I would like to share. I first learned more about something called the RAM model for dating. This model stands for the Relationship Attachment Model.   There are five categories that this model represents whic...

 Hello everyone! This week I have been learning a lot on the topic of gender. Gender is something that is very important to me. There are two genders that many of us have always been familiar with. Those two genders, male and female, are what I learned about the most this week and I would like to share the information that I found insightful with you all concerning that topic.  I learned about how characteristics of females and males differ. There is a lot of research that studied the differences between young boys and girls. This research was done to see if female and male characteristics are taught by culture or if they are involved in natural development. Most of the studies could conclude that there are many untaught characteristics that countless boys and girls show from a very young age. Some characteristics that were found for females included being relationship oriented, detail oriented, able to multitask, cooperative, and nurturing. Girls also tend to develop quicker ...