Family Relations

1What matters when it comes to work ($) and family. Your family always maters more, that being said, you do have to have enough money to provide for your children. That doesn’t mean you have to have enough money to buy them all an iphone at the age 5. Family is always more important. 

Encoding and decoding messages

1The importance of being able to encode and decode messages properly in the relationships. It doesn’t help to teach people how to communicate, it helps to teach them what they are already communicating. It helps to teach them to encode and decode messages. It is important to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. 

Relationship Attachment Model

1.The relationship attachment model. This model consists of: know, trust, rely, commit, and touch. In order to have a good marriage, or a good relationship in general we should try to be equal in all these aspects. When you have too much of one, and not enough of another, then you are going to have problems in your relationship. 

Dating

The three P's of a date are, the date should be: 1. Planned, 2. Paid for, and 3. paired off. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints came out with a paper called "The Family: A Proclamation to the World."They describe the duties of a husband and/or a father as 1. preside, 2. Provide, 3. Protect. When a date your husband plans a date, it is his way of presiding over the date and kind of being in charge of it. When he pays for the date, it is him providing for you on your date and showing that he can and is willing to provide for you. When you are paired off, in a way he becomes more protective of you because you are "his" date.

The Importance of Models

1The importance of models (theories and assumptions). Our actions or beliefs should be based upon theories or assumptions. Theory (attempt to explain) affects you assumptions, which affects your conclusions (actions). This is the very true when it comes to same sex attraction. We talked about the different theories of born that way, or exotic becomes erotic. 

Effect of Social Class on Family

1The effect of social class on the family. Social class definitely impacts the family. Depending on your social class, it can put strains on the family. Your desire for a certain social class also has an affect on the family. If you want a higher social class you may spend more time working rather than wit your family. 

Boundaries

A diffused boundary is a boundary that hasn't been correctly established. A rigid boundary is a boundary that hasn't been correctly established. A rigid boundary is a boundary that completely separates the two people. A picket fence boundary indicates clear boundaries, but still some spaces. The best family relationships have a picket fence boundary around a husband and wife who are close together and then a another picket fence around them and their children.