Family Relations

Congratulations! You're finally married! But now what? The day you get married, everyone feels like they know what the night is going to be like. Throughout my life, I have known quite a few people in high school who had sex with a couple people during their time there. They took pride in that and would even make fun of those who was still a virgin. I never really understood those people. I mean why is that something they should take pride over and brag about. We have been raised in a world where things like pornography and having sex with a lot of people has kind of become normalized.  For those of you who are single and even those who are married that haven't had sex yet, don't feel left out. It's a sacred experience and it's not something that shouldn't be rushed. Many people have in their heads a certain expectation of what it's supposed to be like because of what's portrayed in movies, stories, and more. But with this comes a to of challenges, but a...

You're either at the point where marriage is far from your mind, or marriage is the only thing on your mind. Marriage may seem fun and don't get me wrong you'll have those fun moments for the rest of your life! But there are also a lot of things that are not considered.  Two things that are most important to realize when it comes to marriage are cost and commitments.  The cost to get married can range depending on how, where, and when you get married. A typical wedding would cost about $15k and usually goes up from there. Something to recognize is that you don't need a big wedding. The big question to ask yourself is do you really need a $40k wedding? One thing to take into consideration is that it doesn't matter the cost or how big you have it. In fact, something that might just be nice is to have family there celebrating with you. I know most girls have had their dream wedding planned since they were 6 but it's more about who you want to spend the rest of your...

Does anyone really know when they will meet "the one"? I can tell you with so much reassurance that you don't. I've seen and met so many couples around me and the one thing they all say is "I wasn't expecting it". For all the single people, this advice is mostly for you but all of you in a relationship, maybe this will be good advice as well. I have nothing against dating for one, in fact, I have been on a few here in college as well. However, I know dating is one of the hardest thing people do. I was just talking with a friend about how hard it is to go out and date because everyone has so many different intentions.  One of the most difficult things our generation faces is first figuring out what a date is. I know that we have changed the phrase "Do you want to go out on a date?" to "Hey do you want to hang out this week?". This may be the most common phrase ever, but it also confuses people so much! Something our class talked about ...

From the beginning of life, we are expected to act a certain way. By this, I mean that once the announcement of "It's a Girl" or "It's a Boy" comes, parents start to buy either pink or blue clothes, toy cars or Barbies, Minnie Mouse or Paw Patrol diapers, etc. However many children tend to grow up differently. Not all girls wanted to play with Barbies and not all boys wanted to play in the dirt. Once we are born we have an expectation about what we want to play with, what our favorite color will be, or even who we will interact with more. During my time in elementary school, I saw so many different people, but based on your gender you were either considered "normal" or "weird".  When I was in elementary I had a friend who didn't like to play rough. He was a very kind boy and a lot of the girls actually liked to play with him because he preferred not to go play a running game or kickball. The problem for him was that even though the gi...