Strong families require effort. Your family will be blessed as you do your part to strengthen it. Be cheerful, helpful, and considerate of family members. Many problems in the home come from family members speaking and acting selfishly or unkindly. Seek to be a peacemaker rather than to tease, fight, and quarrel. Show love for your family members each day. Share your testimony with your family through words and actions. Your righteous example can make a difference in strengthening your family" (The Family A Proclamation to the World).
Several factors go into the family and their relations:
Family theories help us understand specific experiences within
the family. A family theory is much different than a person theory. They family
theories take into account the different factors such as family interactions
and behaviors towards one another. These family theories create explanations to
different patters and behaviors.
There is a need for intimacy. This need for intimacy is
noticed as one is in love or even as one interacts with their family. Once that
intimacy is felt there is nothing that really compares to it. Once that
intimacy is gone there becomes a void. People become lonely. Loneliness can
cause damning effects on a child. If they are not given enough attention or
even simply loved they can create ill harbors towards the people around them.
It can cause family rifts and can drive a wedge straight through a family.
Many Myths Confuse people about Families; here’s what they
are.
1.
Opposites Attract
2.
Having children increases marital satisfaction
3.
A good sex life is the best predicator of
Marital satisfaction
4.
Happily married people don’t have conflict
5.
Half of all marriages end in divorce
Do not listen to these myths!
Feeding into the falsehood of a myth can detract from your quality of life.
Never question the decision you made to marry your spouse. If you love them,
keep loving them! Work on your marriage and work through the fights. There is
not greater blessing than overcoming trials successfully with your loved ones.
In Today’s World:
Patterns of intimacy and
relationships are changing constantly in this day and age. A few examples are:
Premarital Sex, Living Alone, Cohabitation, Delayed marriage, birth rates, household
size, employed mothers, and divorce.
Couples are having more and more premarital
sex. The numbers are rising drastically. Yes, there have always been people who
have had premarital sex. This is not new news. However, there is a dramatic
increase in these couples. Numbers are also increasing for people who live
alone. These numbers include people who have been divorced, widowed, separated,
and even those who have never married. Cohabitation is peoples way of trying to
beat the divorce rate. This goes along with delayed marriage. People push of
getting married and cohabitate because they are afraid of getting married for it
to end in divorce. “You can’t let the fear of striking out stop you from playing
the game” No, marriage is not a game but you have to show the people you love,
how much you love them. Show your intimacy to your significant other by
marrying them. Take that next step and be more of a pair with your significant
other.
People need people. A happy and
healthy relationship is crucial for a family to survive and thrive. There is a
specific way families work. Families use each other and grow on one another to
make last long healthy relationships.
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