Hey everyone! My name is Brandi Worthington and this is my first time blogging! I am super excited to start sharing insights from my Family Relations class!

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Dating

      Our world is so different from the world even our parents lived in. One aspect that is different is dating. My parents' version of dating is a lot different than ours. Dating was encouraged way more back then than it is now. My dad would and my teacher told me that they went on dates all the time with different women. This doesn’t mean they kissed all these women but it means that the date was planned, paid for, and that the couples were paired off. This is called assortive dating. This is replaced in our time with hanging out. Now, many young people just get a group of friends together and hang out. In our generation, it is also frowned upon to date multiple people because you are seen as a player. The world wants you to be committed to one person at all times, and this is also what the church believes but only when you are married. The church encourages assortive dating so that men and women can see what characteristics they like in different people.  This...
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Sexual Intimacy

  This week I have been learning a lot about sexual intimacy , and learning about the health and unhealthy ways of marital sexual intimacy. This week I was able to read an article called Characteristics of Healthy and Unhealthy Sexuality in Marriage. In this article Laura Brotherson talks about characteristics of healthy and unhealthy sexuality.  Some characteristics to healthy sexuality are accepting, embracing and comfortable with one's body parts. In order to share your body with someone else, you have to love yourself first. The unhealthy characteristic that goes with the first one is being ashamed, uncomfortable, and critical of your body or the other person's body. Many women and men feel pressured to change features about themselves because of their partner. That is not how God created us. He created us to love our bodies and to share them with each other. Another healthy characteristic talked about is affection for it’s own sake instead of affection as a precursor for...
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Concerns of Having Families

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