Blogging for the Greater Good

  So if you didn't get this from the title today we are going to be talking about marriage. I'm not married but as far as I understand marriage is something that can be pretty hard to adjust to. It's a big change that can happen in your life. So how does one properly prepare for it? Can you even prepare for it? What are some steps that one can take? In one of my classes this week we were talking about how the way you date can directly relate to what happens to your relationship once you are married. We were talking about specific steps that one should take before they marry someone and even the steps one can take once they are married. I am going to share these four phases with you and explain how they can help you understand important things to do when preparing to be married. So the four steps are Dating, Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. So you might be thinking right now "Hanna these are just four steps that people normally do before they get married. Why do I n...

This week we're going to be talking about dating and the different viewpoints that can be had about it. Today's definition of dating is a lot different from what it used to be. It has changed exponentially over the course of these last few years. If I'm being completely honest dating is not something that I have a ton of experience in. The thought of dating has always made me kind of uncomfortable. I'm a bit of an old soul I suppose, so the thought of having to commit to someone when you start dating is a really weird concept to me. It used to be that dating was just something you would do for fun. You would go out with a variety of people to get to know each other and become better at relationships in general. It wasn't so much that you were trying to find one person that you were completely comfortable with. You were getting to know multiple people and personalities. Now dating is looked at in an entirely different way. Now when you actually go on a date, it is se...

   Hello everyone! I hope you have had a fantastic week. This week I wanted to talk about something that is not always talked about openly. During our day and age men and women don’t like to admit to the differences between them. Sometimes our differences can be seen as weakness rather than strengths. I believe however, that it is through the differences between men and women that we are able to find our greatest strength when we work together. We also don't always like to mention our similarities, but it is through those similarities that we can find common ground to build our relationships. Now today's definition of men and women can be a little shaky. Let me start off by saying that I don’t want to argue about this. Everyone has the right to their own opinion but for this article I will be using the traditional definition of men and women. What they were in the beginning. There have always been differences between men and women. It's what makes humanity what it is today....

Hello everyone! Sorry for the crazy format this week. Hopefully I can figure out how to change that and make it a bit easier to read. I hope you have all been doing well! This week I wanted to talk about culture. When one usually thinks about culture they think of a big community in which traditions, language, and different ways are common within the whole group. But how often do we think about what kind of culture we have had and we want to create within our individual families?  I mean there are different cultures within different families aren't there? So I guess we should first start out with an official definition of culture. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary culture is "the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group or the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time" So according to this definition a family which is a sort of "...