Teachings of Family Relations

     Hello everybody! I hope you all have had a wonderful week. I know my week was pretty good despite getting closer and closer to finals and end of semester projects. However we’re not here to talk about myself, we’re here to talk about what I’ve learned in my family relations class. Last during my family relations blog post I talked about affairs and the different types of affairs and how they can affect families. This week I would like to talk about the different types of stressors. I would also like to talk about how different types of stressors can affect the family. Stressful life events, or life event stressors, are undesirable, unscheduled, nonnormative, and/or uncontrollable discrete, observable events with a generally clear onset and offset that usually signify major life changes. Stressful life events have significant negative consequences for both physical and psychological well-being. The first type of stressor is a physiological stressor. These stressors ca...

  Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog about my family relations class. Last week I talked about the differences between courtship and dating as well as the different ways and reasons the people date for. For today’s blog post I would like to talk about affairs, the different types of affairs, and the effects of affairs on relationships. When I look up the definition of infidelity it says: “the action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner.” Now let’s go ahead and talk about the four different types of affairs. Affairs can be categorized based on the type of involvement whether that be emotional or physical and the level or relational attachment whether that be attached or detached. Based on this there are four different types of affairs: fantasy, visual, romantic, and sexual. This being said, it does not take two people for infidelity to occur. Oftentimes, affairs can be committed within the mind or heart of someone who is married with no partic...