Personal Narrative: Marraige

It’s not her fault, it’s just the way it is and it’s time to recognise and accept that and move on. The final fact for me was when I was chatting with my sister in the car and she told me that she had spoken with my wife and said that we both needed to seek professional help. My wife’s response to that sound proposal was, “But Mark goes to meetings!” That tells me that my darling wife sees all the fault and all the need and responsibility for change on my shoulders and not hers and sadly I can no longer carry that burden. It’s too much for even my broad shoulders.

It was less than a second, maybe half a second, but it changed everything. It was late at night after a soccer game. I was laying down in my room, coloring in a picture book, when my parents called me downstairs. After my sister and I walked downstairs, we were told to sit on the couch. Apparently my parents had something important to tell us, i didnt really realize what was going to happen because I was younger, so I sat on the couch smiling widely.

Encouragement plays a significant role in my success. Without encouragement, the achievement won't come true. Juliet Ferking, the author of "A Drive to Achieve the Extraordinary" from This I Believe: Life Lessons, tells her story about

Does your marriage still felicity as same as your dating time with your wife? Most of people’s love is affected by children, work and stress after married. Therefore, more and more family was broken, only 30% people get happy marriage. In essay “Masters of Love” by Emily Esfahani Smith, She introduced two kinds of couples that is the masters and the disasters. The masters were still happily together after six years, but the disasters were broken up or had really bad marriages. Those people who are masters all have a same characteristic that is they understand how to use kindness to manage their marriage, so I extent Smith’s claim “Kindness makes each partner feel cared for, understood, and validated---feel loved.”

"Dad wants me to stay here and live with him. Is that okay?" my son asked. "He's promised me all kinds of "neat stuff" and I can get to know my step family better.

“What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” (-Ralph Waldo Emerson). My parent´s divorce has shaped and influenced my whole life, with a lot of side effects. I fell into a state of depression. I learned not to dwell on the bad things in life. I found a person within myself that I could live with for a while, a kid that I could be proud of, someone I wouldn’t hate. Over the years, I’ve changed, little changes, big changes, it’s all happened, and I am who I am today because of it. Not all crummy circumstances stay awful, even though it may feel like it. I can’t tell if I’ve changed for the better or the worse, but everything starts with something, one thing. My parent´s divorce shaped me into who I am today, whether the changes were good or bad, little or big, this has changed me.

wife has been a journey where I have learned great things about myself and how strong I truly am when

Personal Narrative: Divorce Mum had briefly informed me that we were going to a place that would

Every couple eventually comes to the painful realization that the passion they felt for each other before and at the beginning of their marriage has changed or faded. Losing this spark of attraction and sexual desire can lead to questioning the basis of the marriage. If you no longer feel excited to be with your spouse, do you ask yourself, “What else is there?” Even if you aren’t asking yourself that question, the daily grind of life that includes dealing with children, work, bills and running out of time for anything other than everyday tasks can make you wonder about the number of years that stretch ahead of you in which you’ll be doing the same things every day, over and over again.

One thing that my father told me, actually a couple times, was “if you put in the work, no one can question that”. This meant a lot to me as I really thought about this and analysed it in my head. What he meant, or how I perceived it was, that you may or may not get to where you want to be in life, but nobody can question the work that you put in to get to where you want to be, or where you are right now, and this as with many other things was very, well, inspiring. That is, if you want to put it that way, and this is one of my very reasons for motivation and it helps me build confidence. Knowing this, I have high hopes that these lessons that I have learned throughout my time on this earth so far can benefit my well-being, as well as any of the peers around me, so that I can lead through my

I have learned several things about myself that I feel I need to work on to better my marriage. I have always thought I have a good marriage and to me, it is obvious because we have been married over 38 years. What I learned the most from our readings this week is how much my husband works on our relationship. I now see the things he does that has followed “The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work” by Gottman. My husband hasn’t read this book and he follows it better than I do. Our marriage hasn’t always been perfect, nor is it now but I see how he has worked hard to keep the flames burning and where I may have not always worked as hard in our marriage. I know I am not a failure because “it takes two to tango”, but our readings this week gave

I was born in the Dominican Republic. By the age of 3, my mom moved to the United States and left me in the care of my godparents who raised me in the catholic faith. Even though my mom didn’t raise me, I was somehow taught that my life was not to start until I moved with her. For example, my godparents didn’t like to discuss long term decisions because they thought by the time that long term decision took effect, I was going to be living with my mother. However, when I was about to start high school, I decided I was done with that mindset and communicated to my godparents that I wanted to apply to a high ranking high school because I wanted to get the best education. I didn’t care if I would move before or during my high school education. I was accepted into a very selective and academic driven high school, but by my junior year, I got my visa and immediately moved to the United States to live

There are many different life changing events that can change your life. Sometimes things happen in people’s life and they can’t do anything about it. Changes can be good and sometimes it can be a terrible thing that results in a positive turn in one’s life. Change is a part of life that no one looks forward to. Everyone’s life changes at some point. Life is full of many unexpected challenges that will be thrown in your face at any place and any time. People learn and grow from every experience that they go through in life. Some of the events that have changed my life was losing my grandmother, graduation, and going to college. Changes come almost every day in my life.

In my life, I have been exposed to a challenge called change. Change can occur in many different ways and is dealt with in many different ways. I have come to the awareness that change can be the deepest of all things. I always thought that change occurred when you moved to a state or when you lost someone real close to you. Those are a challenge to change, yes, but change doesn’t have to occur over a climactic incident. It can just appear overnight when your brain winds up when it’s time to do something different. Even with friends that you used to have and know that move on. For example, most of my friends from elementary school, I don’t even talk to them anymore.

Rewind my life seven years backwards. I was the youngest member in my department at work. A number of us were not happy with the way things were being handled with the union that I was a member. I honestly can not remember the actual reason that we were unhappy about. I just remember that we were attending meetings that the union holds to show that we were unhappy. Looking back, I was suckered into being the departments “mole” into the inner workings of this union. That was just a start, and I had my own reasons for getting involved. I knew if it was not for me I would not have done anything, but the union was a big unknown to me and that is all it took to be for me to be nudged into the role I was to play. After having a discussion with my father, who’s life experience I respect more than any other person I know, I was able to feel comfortable with my decision to become involved in the union. I became a site representative, which was just a title to me and carried no real weight, I was there to learn about what a so called union was and what did it really do for me. Little did I know I how much this simple trial was going to effect my life down the road. Now the decision to audit the meetings and become a site representative was merely dipping my toes into the shallow end. Once I had my own idea of what a union was or better yet, should be. Then while learning what it did for me an event happened that made me jump straight into the deep end and never look back.