Neff also addresses the fact that there are people who are against people moving in together before marriage. She states that it’s a personal decision people make because living together can have lasting positive effects that can later solidify a marriage. The author also states while living together may be valuable for some relationships, it can also be the source of an unhappy ending for others. Even though people love each other and spend a lot of time together, the question still remains, “Can you live together?” I agree with the author’s views on living together before marriage because I am currently sharing a space with my boyfriend. Living together before marriage helps a couple establish roles and responsibilities in the household.
Communication in Happy Marriages Patrick Thompson COM200: Interpersonal Communication Instructor Debra Austin May 20th, 2012 I believe that communication is very important in not just marriages but also when you are dating. If you do not know the person that you are dating or married to then I believe that the relationship would be setting up to fail. I can say that my fiancée and I have decent conversations but I am pretty sure that there is a lot more that we could learn about each other. Due to the lack of conversation between my fiancée and me early on in our relationship, there were hardships. After almost coming to a breaking point we had to learn how to conversate in a way that didn’t come off as hostile or not actually hearing
Marriage is all about happiness and learning to love and care for each other. It is something you work hard for each and every day. “Over the past decades our society traditional beliefs and assumptions concerning the institution of marriage have come under attack” (“The Marriage Advantage”, 2002). Many people believed that marriage is just something written on a piece of paper. Marriage is just an outdated institution that no longer regulates relationships.
It sometimes became kind of uncomfortable to talk about the topic of puberty with my mom and aunt since it was two different sexes, I never had a male role model so talking to them became very easy not that uncomfortable anymore as I got older. I believe talking with them and listening to the many advices they have given me through out the years got us closer as a family. According to the health textbook masculinity as well as femininity refer to the ideal cluster of traits that society attributes to each gender. Society is changing in many ways and one can see that in the models of masculinity and femininity. It is not uncommon in our modern day society to see a woman having a CEO position, or see a woman being a police officer, nor it is uncommon to see male librarians organizing books or stay at home dads taking care of the kids.
The results I hope to gain from this proposal are my friends and family giving it a try and hopefully staying with it. Knowing I was able to make exercise plan that kept them motivated is the best results I can hope for. This is intrinsic motivation for me, doing a job and feeling good about me once it is completed. Making each of them their own chart that has a schedule with what they should be doing throughout the week and having their weight written in it at the beginning and then writing their weight at the end of each week so they are able to see what process they have made should be motivating to them, they will see the results of their hard work at the end of the week. At the end of each day they will feel good about themselves just because
In “Faux Friendship”, essayist and critic William Deresiewicz tells about friendship and the journey of how friendship has changed over the decades. Friendship is an important part of everyone’s lives. Every person wants to be a friend or to have that special person they can call their friend. What is friendship becoming now that we have networking sites that allow us to keep in contact with potentially every person we come into contact with? Being someone’s friend was not something that was given freely.
Jenny Graves: The only thing that I would change really is doing more everyday with each child. I know there is only so much you can do, but I feel that there is always room for more. You can never learn enough in your life time. Cynthia Moore: What do you like most about your job? Jenny Graves: I love being able to help the younger generations learn and to guide them to be the very best they can be in life.
Just the Way We Are Everyone thought that there are similar differences between males and females. Both genders are different through their social, emotional and intellectual qualities. Gender roles influence women and men in virtually every area of life including family and occupation, but are women and men subject to different roles or behavior expectations? Gender role by definition is,” the public image of being male or female that a person presents to others.” (Dictionary.com). In early American culture it was common for a women’s job to be an obedient housewife in clear contrast to the male’s duty to be a job holder.
Since we don’t realize that others’ styles are different, we miscommunicate with each other causing problems and conflicts in conversation. Conflicts are influenced by our gender and experienced everyday in the workplace, public, and private settings. Men and women both have many different conversational ways. The common ways among us men often involve “using things such as joking, teasing, and playful put-downs.” We can sometimes come across as hostile and arrogant when we aren’t trying to be. The conversational rituals common among women are often ways of “maintaining an appearance of equality, taking into account the effort of the exchange on the other person, using up effort to downplay the speaker’s authority so they can get the job done without flexing their muscles in an obvious way.” Women use conversational strategies to avoid appearing conceited and take another person’s feelings into account.
“True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender” I spent the day at a local café observing men and women. I watched them closely as they came in and walked out and came to find out that many of Devor’s arguments were accurate. Just as Devor states “masculinity and femininity can be demonstrated through a wide variety of cues (533)”. We can easily differentiate males and females by the way they dress, by their behavior, body language and verbal language. Out of all these criteria I believe that body language is one of the most significant cues and it reveals tremendous information about ones gender role in the society.