Blog 2

After posting my first blog I sat and thought about it and I decided that it would be a far better learning experience for me if I post this blog with intent of following my families interact. I have noticed depending on who is in the house at the current moment really sets a tone to every single person that lives in this house.  So it has been an overall good week and with hardly any emotional rising incidents. Monday came and went with no problems which usually happen when my dad is home. His lone form of testosterone makes the tension in the house drop drastically. Three females living in a house can be a lot (I could only imagine living in a house of like 10 woman or more….CRAZY!) Tuesday is the best day of the week in my house, it being the only day in the week were neither my sister or I have to attend campus class so this day has been titled our lazy day. The attitudes usually never get high on this day because everyone is just in such a great mood. The only time it usually hits the fan mid-week is when we (being my sister or I) have a lot of stuff piled on us from school and our self-tension begins to run high. Wednesday rolled around and that’s when I woke up to a text stating my great aunt (my dad’s mother’s sister) had passed away. This wasn’t an overly emotional experience for me seeing as how I haven’t seen my aunt Lucy in many years. She has been suffering from Alzheimer for many years and it finally took her in her sleep. It is always an interesting situation when something emotional happens that I believe should affect my dad and it simply doesn’t. He has been known in our family as the hard one to crack. He actually displayed more emotion on Thursday, which was his mother’s birthday then he did on Wednesday. His mother passed in March of this year very suddenly and it was extremely hard to deal with for him. After these two emotional days we had a smooth sailing weekend where everyone was happy and well.

I have noticed that if we have a smooth week then when the weekend rolls around there are far less problems that arise and a lot less emotions that have to be dealt with before the good times can happen.  Have a good night!

Blog 1

So this is my first post and I feel that it is important to tell everyone that I am not an openly emotional person with people that I do not know. I really have issues when it comes to talking to people about my emotions unless I am really close with the person. This is going to be a weird situation for me posting to something that doesn’t have an immediate reply.

The relationship that I decided to focus my blog on is my relationship with my sister. When reading through the chapters I have paused and though of a way to relate them to my relationship with my sister many times. One of the main things that I have noticed is that we have a strong form of visual communication. We use this form of communication often. We have the ability to look at each other and get an idea of what the other is thinking without having to say anything at all. I have a feeling that the visual relationship with her will be the part that I discuss the most. I believe that this developed at an early age since we are only three years apart, each other’s only sibling and both female.  This relates to what we studied in chapter one because of the gender likeness that we both share.

Now when discussing my relationship with my sister one needs to know that we both do still live at home with our parents and that our dad is usually out of town so we are in a house full of woman. This plays an important part in how we interact with each other. I hope that the following post display how we interact with each other on a personal level. I hope that I display an active relationship with someone that can be looked upon as a healthy relationship. I hope you enjoy.

Stephanie