Trent Law's Family Relations Blog

  In this week’s classes, we discussed the importance that fathers play in the family as well as learning about family finances. Hearing accounts from others about the importance of fatherhood has helped me know for myself that having a father in the home is crucial. From personal experience, I grew up not having my father around, but I am not bitter about it. I cannot remember my feelings about it when I was younger, but there was a chance that I was confused about why my father was not involved more in my life. Though he may not have been in my life every day, I was allowed to visit with him biweekly at his house. My father is big into four-wheelers and I remember the first time that he allowed me to drive one for myself. My first attempt though did not happen as well as what I would have liked it to go. I’m not sure how it happened but I remember driving the four-wheeler one second but then finding myself underneath it the next, it all happened so fast. Luckily for me, the four-...

  In this week’s discussion, we focused on communication and how we can improve upon communicating with others. We also discussed ways that we might be able to help each other in dealing with conflict. Most of the time when we communicate we use verbal communication to express our thoughts or desires. Though verbal language is important to state what we are thinking, our nonverbal language communicates how we deliver those words. From personal experience, I have always loved having conversations with my mother. Some of the topics that we discussed may have been challenging to talk about, but we were able to support each other during that hard discussion. I view communication as extremely important, without it, how can our relationships become stronger? It’s always comforting to know that I have someone that I can go to when I need to get something off my chest. Once I make known my desires and thoughts, then I can receive feedback that confirms my thoughts or influences me to make ...

  For this week’s class, the topic we focused on was learning about family crises and how we can best overcome the adversities that we all face in life. There are mentioned some methods that are seen to be ineffective in dealing with a crisis. One idea that might help initially is denying that the crisis even exists. Though this may be helpful at first in dealing with the crisis, it will still be left unresolved. Avoiding the crisis might give you some relief, but the crisis will also be left unresolved and will only become worse the more that it is put off. The best way of dealing with a crisis is to work together with other members of the family to find ways of getting past the problem. In my life, I have had instances of hearing dear ones who I was close to passing away. The first experience I had of this was a dear friend of mine who was the second counselor of the bishopric when I first met him. I remember him taking me for a ride in his roadster and times that we would go int...

  For this week’s discussion, we talked about sexual intimacy and family life. The topic of sexual intimacy is a bit of a touchy subject, especially in today’s world. With so many different relationships that they can result from sexual intimacy, we must teach our children the difference between these relationships. The first relationship style is that of heterosexual couples, meaning marriage between a man and a woman. This type of relationship, as defined in the Family Proclamation, is the marriage type that our Heavenly Father has designed as appropriate in our day. The other relationship style is homosexuality. Though this form of relationship is not accepted by the church, we do not judge people who decide to embrace this form of relationship. Without going into too much detail about the sexual experience, we must keep our sexual experiences in line with what the Lord has established. Men, on average, tend to want sexual encounters because of their higher drive. Women tend to ...