Week 2

I'm loving this class more and more so far. In the beginning of the week we talked about how we are genetically designed to connect to others. We need and crave that kind of relationship. Unfortunately not everyone gets to have a close relationship from their parents or siblings and it affects who they are in the future. It's interesting to think that love kind of molds who are in the future. We also went over some myths that people take for fact, such as there is a 50% divorce rate, when really the people who get divorced tend to be divorced more than once so it's skewing the numbers. I actually want to take the time and discuss this with my cousin. She hasn't had the best life growing up in the stable mother/father figure relationship in her life. To he divorce happens all to often and she doesn't see the reasons why people get married if it won't work out later in life. I want to explain to her a healthy family life and spouse relationship can change that. Yesterday we went over our own family systems and I thought it was so interesting to sit and understand my own family system. The unspoken rules and the boundaries within each relationship. We all subconsciously follow these rules but don't ever really think about it because it's how it's always been. Then understanding the function of a boundary. How it's a hierarchy and that it regulates how the family functions. I love learning about the family. I never realized how complex the family was, but it makes sense.