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  In today's ever-changing world, the role of fathers in the family holds immense significance. While the traditional gender roles have evolved, the importance of fathers remains steadfast. From emotional support and guidance to fostering a sense of security and identity, fathers play a crucial role in shaping the overall well-being of their children and the family unit. In this blog, we will explore the multifaceted reasons why fathers are indispensable in the family, examining the profound impact they have on their children's development and the strength of familial relationships. Fathers provide a unique form of emotional nurturing and support that complements the mother's role. Their love, encouragement, and active involvement foster a sense of emotional security and stability in their children. Fathers offer a different perspective and approach to parenting, which helps in cultivating a diverse range of emotional skills and coping mechanisms in children. By providing a...

  This is one of my all time favorite topics!! I have a huge addiction, if you will, to having good communication. In this entry I will be talking about communication in interpersonal and personal relationships. So, I would like you guys to think about how you communicate with anyone that you’re acquainted with, and what you could do to communicate better.  I had the unique opportunity to be a missionary for my church for 2 years in Detroit, Michigan. If you don’t know much about missionary life for missionaries in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you are living on your own in a place you’ve never been with one or two other missionaries of the same gender, who also have never been there. You spend every minute of every day together. The only time that you get away from them is when you’re in the bathroom… Needless to say, tensions can build real quick. It becomes absolutely necessary, if we want to be unified and make healthy, positive decisions together, t...

  In the event of stress, how do you and your family respond? Do you all respond the same way? How have different responses to stress events impacted your family? For me, I think immediately of one of my aunts. She already is someone who has a negative and dramatic outlook on life, so when her mother passed away over 10 years ago, it was extremely hard for her. And honestly, it totally should be; she’s justified in taking it hard. However, I feel like she has held onto the pain for way too long, and it has affected her immediate and extended family life. She has taken her pain out on God, but I also feel like it has been an excuse to extremely distance herself from her husband’s side of the family that she never really liked in the first place anyways. The way my aunt’s siblings took their mother’s deaths was much different from her response. They, of course, were in pain and needed to mourn, but they were able to move on much quicker, and it didn’t impact their family’s lives even...

  First of all, I want to address my inadequacy on this topic. I recognize that I’m not someone that has too much experience with this, so I’m just going to talk about what I’ve heard/learned from other people, while drawing on my miniscule and incomplete experiences. This is a topic that I have studied periodically, and find it exciting to be able to apply in my future with my wife.  I have always heard that sex is a beautiful thing, and that the movies and pornography aren’t accurate representations of what sex should be. From an article that I had read back in August of 2021, and from my recent studies, I learned that sex should be selfless. In other words, if it’s to gratify yourself and not primarily for your partner, it’s probably not a real, genuine expression of your emotions.  I will attempt to share my perspective with my limited experience. I was dating a girl a while ago that had this really strange preference that she couldn’t be touched by anybody unle...

  How important is it for you to make decisions in a relationship? Who would you say typically makes the decision in relationships? Is it typically the male or the female that makes the decision? Most people would say that it’s the males that want to make the decisions, but if you ask them, the guys usually don’t want to make the decisions! Why is that? Well, from what I can tell you as a guy, I don’t want the responsibility of always making the decisions. I feel like it completely absolves the responsibility from the women to make decisions. What this does in a relationship is it puts total blame on the men for all of the good, and all of the bad that happens. Personally, I find that this creates a huge chasm between couples that can only be seen in the long run. In the moment, it doesn’t seem like the choice to be the only one to make decisions would have any major consequences. However, over long periods of time, the choices add up. So when is the best time to start making choic...