Overcome The Fears And Anxieties Of Marriage

 Hello everyone! This week is a little bit different than previous weeks. We're talking about father's and how their roles have changed throughout the years. Along with this, how they are portrayed on social media. For a little bonus, I'm also going to touch base on how we should be spending time together as families and how work/play should go hand-in-hand. To start off, between about 1800 and 1900, life and work were not seperated. Father's would often spend all day with their families and were really close with them as well. After and during the industrial Revolution, this changed drastically. Father's weren't able to spend all day at home anymore, in fact, they were rarely ever home at all during the week. They would typically work 60 hour weeks, which leaves pretty much no time for play at home with the kids. Because of this, the structure of families changed leaving the mother to do what the father had once done at home. The mother's were left to do th...

    Hello everyone! This week kind of goes along with some of the things I talked about last week, but now I'm specifically going to go into more depth about communication. Communication is such a hard thing to master, and you most likely never will be a pro at it, but you can sure practice until you figure out a way both you and your partner are communicating successfully.     Communication, if done right, can save a relationship. Sometimes we may have no idea what is trying to be communicated. Sometimes we can guess, but still won't know exactly what the other person is trying to get across. Let's talk about the four things that make up communication, but can also get in the way of it. The four things are media, words, tone, and non-verbal. 14% of communication comes from words, 35% of it comes from tone, and 51% of communication comes from non-verbal meaning body language and actions. People mostly believe tone over words, and that's really important to remember w...

 Hey everyone! This week is a shorter blog than past weeks, but I'm writing about coping and how that may look, and should look, in a marriage. Coping is a natural things that comes with stressor events such as divorce, illness, loss of trust, finance loss, moving, etc;  These things can cause a whole lot of both stress and anxiety. These things can often break a family apart, but we need to keep in mind that they can also strengthen a family as well, especially if you cope the right way.  Knowing the difference between healthy and unhealthy coping mecahnisms is extremely important. Some common unhealthy ways to cope could be alcohol, complaining, blaming someone or something else, burying and putting all your time towards work, and denial. Now while in a relationship, especially marriage, the most important thing you can do while coping with someone whether that's dealing with something individually or together, is to talk to each other. Talking to each other can help in...

Hello! This week I'm going to be touching base on boundaries and the certain extent of boundaries that need to be set in a marriage.  First things first, boundaries should be personal and meaningful to your specific relationship. Mulitple conversations on what your boundaries are, need to be had with your partner throughout your relationship and need to happen often, especially after getting married. If special attention is put toward your marriage early on, this could prevent very extreme and real problems later on.  Let's talk about attachment. Attachment is something that is crucial to any relationship, but especially marriage. There are three basic things that could prevent a developing attachment toward your spouse. Friends, famiy, and media. You should never do anything that will end up getting you attached to anyone but your spouse. This includes our three subjects, friends, family, and media. Some examples of these things could exist as parents, siblings, any friends, ...

 A little different topic this week! We're going to be talking about planning a wedding. Now I'm not married and have never planned a wedding before, so this isn't going to be a guide on what you should buy or what colors you should include in your wedding. Instead, I'm going to be a guide on what the "enagagement period" of your relationship should and will entail, as well as how to manage it, and this just happens to include planning a wedding which is the biggest part of your time being engaged.  To start off, it takes both people in the relationship to plan a wedding. Although the woman often cares a lot more about the details than the man does, this doesn't mean that the man shouldnt give any input or opinion into what is being planned. And vise vera, the woman should be able to let the man give his opinion and share what he wants as well as what she wants. Throughout the whole planning process, each person in the relationship should often be asking e...

To start off, let's talk about the four age stages. There's birth- 2 years old, then 3-6 years old, 7-11 years old, and lastly 12-17 years old. In each stage, there are three domains. These include physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional.  Let's talk about the milestones that happen within each stage and go through them age by age: From ages birth-2 years old, your child may learn how to lift their head off of the ground, they may ley on their tummy. They will learn how to smile as well as how to vocalize. They will start to become aware of their body parts. The child will start to look selectively a well as maybe learning how to pull themselves up in a standing position. They will start to develop motor skills such as putting objects in a container. They will start to learn social referencing and problem solving. They'll learn how to walk and learn self-feeding skills. From ages 3-6 years old, your child will be able to think about objects, people, and events without ...