Partner Selection

When selecting a life long partner, often times people assume it would be a good idea to live with one another as a "test run" first. When, in reality, cohabitation is a bad idea; it often times leads to divorce, if they ever do decide to get married. This week in class we talked about cohabitation quite a bit, and it really stuck out to me. I guess when you think about it, on one side it "seems" like it really would make sense to see how someone lives before decided to marry them, but on the flip side it would be so hard to get the thought that there is an easy out to just leave. Divorce is a big deal, and should take place only under the right circumstances. Out of all of the divorces that take place, most of them could have been resolved. But, when you cohabitate with a person before marriage, divorce will be in the forfront of the mind because before they were married they really could just leave. Most people don't realize, but you can discover enough about a person from dating and courtship to decide to marry them and then once the marriage takes place, sure there will be changes and things to get used to, but those things can be worked through and gotten use to when done the right way.

Gender Roles

One thing that really stuck out to me this week in class was about the roles and divine purpose of gender. There are a lot of things that come along with our gender, and they're not just things that the world engraves into our minds are girl things or boy things, there are much more meaningful things than that. Females are to become mothers, and along with that is a natural desire to do so, and they can be natural nurturers of the home and family, where males are to become fathers and are meant to be the provider and protectors of the home and family. In class, we talked about how the mother's roles are focused more "in" the home and keeping everything safe, and the father's is more "out" in the sense of keeping things out of the home. There are many more qualities and characteristics that go along with gender, and in more depth with the mothers and fathers too, but I think that the role of a mother and father is the greatest role of them all and that each home and every child is entitled to be raised by both for they have such a huge impact on them.