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This last week we spoke about how our bodies typically respond to stressors. Everyone is a little different and how we respond to stressors can change over time. I know for me it’s been interesting to say the least. I’ve been able to deal with higher and higher levels of stress as I’ve deliberately exposed myself to job that create high stress situations. One of the main reasons I took my last job was to expose myself to a situation that was particularly stressful and unpleasant the first time I dealt with it. When I was working in the North Dakota oil field, I held a position with my first company that required me to help offload pneumatic semi-trucks that were full of sand. We used a high-pressure air system (pneumatic) to blow air through the tanks and unload the trucks into another system. The system we offloaded into looked like a larger semi-truck trailer that you would see driving for Walmart or some other type of freight company, but only they were about 30% larger. They we...

This week was an interesting week. We talked about sexual intimacy and how it can affect both partners differently. It seems that society thinks of sex as a very casual thing that is more of a bargaining chip and less of a tool to grow closer to your partner. Then again, it really seems like society tends to get things incorrect. Especially if you were to listen to the media, they basically just sell whatever you want to buy regardless of its truthfulness. It’s almost become a running joke as to how badly the media displays its fictions. Today’s media will have us believe that we should only use sexuality as a means to obtain instant gratification or to get something that we want and instead of using it for its intended purpose which is to have children and to grow closer with a partner. People get caught up in the wrong aspects of intimacy and we see over and over that it does not lead to a happy place. People are feeding the wrong desires with in themselves and it quickly becomes...

This week in my Family Relations class we discussed some statistics pertaining to relationships where people cohabitated prior marriage verses not living together prior to marriage. The statistics pretty much stayed in line with things I have already heard when I was back in high school and they make a lot of sense in a lot of areas. It’s typical when people cohabit prior to marriage, to have a less fulfilling marriage, and a marriage that tends to be less than traditional. It was discussed through examples, that when people have a cohabit mentality prior to marriage, they tend to think of themselves as separate people and less of belonging to a family. It seemed to me that the resulting marital issues would be the result of improper family definitions rather than the fact that they cohabitated. In other words, it seemed to me that people with certain mentalities towards family and relations ships, would prefer to cohabit prior to marriage, and its these types of mentalities that l...