Let's Talk Family

Week Seven: Sexual Intimacy and Family Life       This week’s material was great and precious, but it didn’t pass my mind without flushing my face every once and a while; the topics are a little sensitive. In short, this week we talked all about the physical realm of intimacy within marriage, and the joys and stressors that could be involved there with. I hope that I can convey these topics that I found interesting in the most sensitive and pure way, as to not soil their amazing nature. I also wish to discuss a little on infidelity and remaining ‘true’ to our spouses.         To start off, I want to make a connection from a couple weeks ago regarding gender differences. We all have come to a common consensus that women and men are innately different and through their differences make a more perfect union. Well the same is true in the sexuality of both genders, they are both different! Both genders appreciate and love having close rel...

Week Six: Transitions in Marriage       This week we learned about the transition into marriage and what we could expect when being newlyweds or approaching marriage. I can for sure tell you that I was out of my element and could not relate to a lot of the things being presented ( because I’m not married yet ) but I was engrossed and learned a lot of valuable things that can happen along with transitioning into a new marriage and you can bet that I’ll be paying very close attention to accomplishing these things as I prepare for my own marriage.        So, my teacher taught us in the beginning of our class that marriage is often like shooting off a cannon at the beginning, It’s an interesting analogy and in my mind it’s accurate. A lot of noise and drama, with often some smoke clearing after the ceremonies and formalities are finished. But there is more to the story. When a couple shoots off a new marriage it’s hard to change the results of w...