This week in class we talked about marriage and the adjustments you have to make after getting married. Some of these adjustments are acceptance, decision making skills, adopt to living adjustments, budget resources, and daily discoveries. Budget resources would be money and time. when your married you have to learn how to budget your time because your life can be crazy with school, work, kids, and anything else. Also I think it's important to learn to budget your money because you both need to know how to save and to make sure your not spending more then you have. Some living adjustments would be sharing a bed with someone. I am a person who likes to spread out when I sleep, so sharing a bed will be hard at first. I also have to learn how to compromise because I have always been a person who wants it my way. I will need to listen to his side, as well as he will need to listen to my side. Communication is a very important thing in a relationship, especially in marriage.

There is four different kinds of love: Storge is the kind of found in the affection between parents and children, Philia which is love between friends, Eros "erotic" is the kind of love between a man and a woman, Agape love that is independent of one's feeling for another. I would like to experience all of these sometime in my life. I want a love the develops over time and lasts. I loved learning about dating this week because it's something I'm experiencing right now in my life and it's so interesting to learn about the different kinds of love. There is also four stages to marriage: dating, courtship, engagement, and marriage. I have never heard of all these steps before I really enjoyed learning about them. Dating is when you date lots of people and get know lots of different people as well. Courtship is when after dating all those people you find one that you want to be in a series relationship with and could see yourself marrying them. Then after that is engagement, which is when you find the one you want to be with so you start moving forward towards marriage. Marriage is last but the relationship is still growing, still trying to work together as a couple and grow to a good, mature love. I was so happy I loved about these things, I feel like I'm more prepared in a way when dating and meeting people.

So this week in class we talked a little on same sex attraction. I really thought this was an interesting topic because I heard some things I had never thought about before. I was talking to this person who has a gay brother and his opinion was that God gives everyone challenges and that they have to work hard to over come them. This really made me think because I had never thought about that before. As I thought about it, it made sense to me. God does give everyone challenges and we have to do everything we can to over come them. We have resist the urges and feelings for any kind of challenge we have in our life, no matter what the challenge is. God did create man and woman to get married and to have a family, so it's hard for me to think about same sex attraction because it's not what God wants for us. I do understand more about same sex attraction and why it happens now then I've ever have.

Last time in class we talked about social class and cultural diversity. I learned how the world is divided in three classes; upper, middle, and lower. The way you are put in a class is by your appearance, your possessions, education, friends, and money. One class is not necessarily better than the other, it just means where we are at in our life at that time. We can always work hard and move to a different class sometime in our life depending on what you want. Our culture is defined as a way of life. This can include; traditions, values, and principles. Everyone has a different set of traditions and values depending on how they grew up and by what they learned.