Family Transition Analysis

The impact that adult children returning home has on the children and the parents can be challenging. A child moving back to his/her parents’ house has an impact on; time, money and the relationships between parent and child. These impacts can be both good and bad. Either way, they are life changing for both the parents and the child. Children returning home effect everything in the life of their parents. Their parents make adjustments to everything they do from small daily plans such as going to the grocery store to the long-awaited plans of going on a vacation. There are several ways that parents and their adult children will have to face when the children after moving back to their parents’ house.

I think transition stage is perfect for what this family is going through right now because Transition stage primary focus is to recognize the addiction and developing the motivation to become abstemious. Also, for the client to recover from the physical, psychological, and social damage caused by addiction.

Marriage is an adjustment between two people getting married Communication can cause a relationship to succeed or fail. If you do not share how you feel, it can cause your partner to withdraw. Listening can save a relationship. Schonberg (2011) found that “affective affirmation –basically, behavior that makes your partner feel loved cared for or special plays a role in a happy marriage and those men need it more than women. There are several factors and problems that can cause marriage to either succeed or fail. It is important to discuss problem things left unsaid can cause your partner to with draw.

Marriage requires effort and work. Many newlyweds come into a marriage thinking it is easy but do not consider the consequences of marriage that heavily rely on balances and partnership. Marriage is all about compromise. It is important to engage in a premarital program to allow both partners to learn what to expect within a marriage, how to face certain roadblocks, and to better communication when conflict is aroused so that divorce does not become an option. Gottman’s research (2009) has made a significant contribution to the study of relationship and marriage tying unity, harmony, and communication together to make relationship and marriage work. When a couple who does not have consummate love (intimacy, passion, and commitment), they often portray the six indicators of divorce: harsh startup, the Four Horsemen, flooding, body language, failed repair attempts and reflecting on bad memories (Gottman, 2009). Divorce often occurs within the first two years of marriages and almost half of divorces end within the first seven years (Bhutto-Ramirez, 2015).

Thank you so much for your support and kind words. It was a unique experience and I think it was good to be present for the transition. I am sure she knew she was technically home. My father and older sister had beat us home to get things situated for my mom’s return home and my wife was following behind in the ambulance. I was honored to be present for the transition since my mother and I were very close. The blessing is that my family had months to prepare for her transition. Unfortunately, some families are not fortunate.

The paper compares and contrasts different theories about adult development by consequently establish a model based generally on a life course conceptualization providing detailed explanation about what are the variables that affect adults’ adaption to transition. And it gives a catalog of different external & internal, personal & environmental, societal & economic, and physical & phycological elements which may independently or collectively lead the adult towards a challenge of transition. The author tends to emphasize on

This paper is going to look at the episode from Modern Family and focus on the three couples that were shown in the episode. These couples relationship's will be examined through John Gottman's discussions of the “7 Principles for Making Marriage Work”, Genderlect Theory, and System's Theory. I will touch on just a few of the 7 principles that some of the couples exemplify through their relationships. Gottman's first principle of “enhancing your love maps”, means that you should familiarize yourself in learning about your partner's world. To have a detailed love map means to know relevant information about your partner such as their likes, dislikes, worries, goals, dreams and so on. The first couple, Cam and Mitchell emphasize this principle

Intimacy in marriage is important in its effect on the psychological and emotional closeness of the individuals in the relationship and the health of the relationship itself. The intimacy that develops in a marriage is one that is built over time as couples develop trust between each other. Intimacy does not necessarily always include the physical part of being close to each other and sharing in a sexual context. It encompasses sharing on a deep level in openness, trust, and pure relationship. Marriage itself does not define a pure relationship, but pure relationship can be defined within the bounds of traditional marriage. A pure relationship is one in which each partner has entered into the relationship believing that the relationship is sustainable from what they assume can be derived from each other’s individual contributions (Connidis, 2010, p. 53). It is from these foundations of trust that allows a couple to rely upon each other through life’s circumstances and a deep, lasting attachment and emotional support for each

The authors go on to discuss that transition is a process or movement in different stages during an individual’s life and causes a person to “redefine their sense of self and redevelop self-agency in response to disruptive life events” (Kralik et al., 2006, p. 321). Essentially, it is a passage, movement, or dramatic shift from one state or phase of a person’s life to another, thus resulting in life changing alteration such as self-redefinition and a new reality (Kralik et al., 2006; Nakamura, 2010; Schumacher & Meleis,

Nearly all couples consider marriage as living happily ever after, on the contrary, seldom do we encounter the experience of happily ever after in marriages in this day and time. Countless families are confronted with grueling problems that swarm into the family system that make it difficult to move forward and experience a happy marriage. Despite the fact numerous challenges can often be resolved within the family unit, there are various other troubles that can be harsh to tackle.

Marriage is said to bring out the best in people. Patience, sacrifice, consideration and compromise is nurtured in the course of marriage when a couple spends more time together and learn more about each other. Marriage, thus, is a process of emotional nurturing and maturing. It teaches one to be more understanding and selfless.

Parents should accept this stage as a way of life and convert a perceived loss into an opportunity. Focusing on some of the positive changes resulting from their children moving out can ease the sense of loss and help them to see the brighter side of their future. This can be a stage of exploration, a time to rekindle their interests, their friendships and a time to widen their horizons. They should demonstrate to their children that they’re getting on with their life so that the children can embrace their new life without any

The family’s culture includes that of a healthy lifestyle. Their family wants to lose weight, start exercising, and eat healthy. The family admits they are overweight, but both parents gained weight after getting pregnant and having their daughter. I think the struggle now has been the change in routine and the added stress of being new parents. Both parents work full-time jobs and are always on the go, so they find it difficult to stay on track. Since they are in the process of moving, losing weight and changing habits are not top priority. However, once they become settled there is an openness to start taking the right steps in the direction to losing weight. From both sides of the family, healthy living and losing weight is thought of and tried in each. However, the mother’s side of the family is better about weight and more dedicated to improving health and making it a big deal in their lives.

The four phases of intimate relationships are attraction, frustration, adjustment, and devotion. Attraction is the first phase. People attract to other of different styles. The different become an advantage and people often commit to a lifelong relationship. Frustration is the second phase. The advantages of attractive point of partner became a disadvantage. People deal conflict in the extreme of their styles and it is the phases most relationship end. The third phases are adjustment. During this phases, couples encounter different kind of problems such as mortgage, retirement saving and having children. There are ways to navigate through problems: a shift from judgement to acceptance, realize that there are unsolvable problems, try to change own self, not the partner, and appreciate the different. The last phrases are devotion and there are three characteristics. Both persons have confidence in the relationship, enjoy intimacy, and go with the flow in the

Conversely, most people perceive marriage as a sanctuary, satisfying the needs of both partners involved. It is one of the most important institutions affecting people’s health and well-being. Firstly, a strong marriage has a dramatic effect on the partners’