Week 2

I'm struggling to know what to write about, not because I didn't find this week's discussions interesting but, well just because... This morning when I was trying to come up with 9 Rules that existed when I was growing up I was surprised at how difficult it was. The first "rule" that came to my mind was "finish everything on your plate". My dad would always say "that chicken gave it's life for you and you need to eat every bite". Now that I'm grown up and living with roommates I find myself repeating this phrase sometimes.

Something that stuck out to me from one of the readings was that "family stability is actually rooted in change". Beside this statement I wrote the name of my former boss because it reminded me of some of our discussions we would have during the quieter times at work. He was a bishop so he had seen a lot of issues between couples and he would say that in a marriage both husband and wife have to be willing to change or adapt to new situations. We can't expect our life as a newly-wed to be the same as when we were dating, when babies enter the picture life changes again, then we have toddlers, school-aged children, teenagers, and before we know it we're empty-nesters. He would tell me about several recently married couples that had already broken up because they expect life to be "rosy" all of the time and when things get a little bit tough they just quit. Eternal commitments suddenly lose all of their meaning and I just think it's really sad.