Madeline Gray's Perspectives

      Family life can be stressful. There are many events that happen in family life that can be very stressful. Last April I thought my mom was going to die from an accident and it was very stressful and I was getting married that month too. My mom and her friend were out walking and a biker ran into her and she went flying in the air, because she was tiny. She flew a few feet and landed on her head which split her head open about seven inches. She broke her collarbone, bruised her hip and got a concussion. I showed up at the accident site and she was barely concuss. My dad and I, who showed up, thought she was going to die.       My dad later told me when he was in the ambulance with her that he was thinking how he was going to tell us kids that mom just died. Luckily she didn't and she had a rough many many months getting better. At the beginning of her, getting better, journey she couldn't walk because the biker hit her really hard on the hip....

      It is very important to know what sexual intimacy is before you get married. When I was engaged my husband and I were talking and I didn't really know what sex was. I felt pretty embarrassed, but growing up my parents never had the talk with me about any of this. Yes, I learned about this in school a lot and it was gross and weird to me so I would zone out when we talked about it. I always heard stories about teen girls getting pregnant and I was always terrified that that would happen to me. This topic always made me uncomfortable and nervous. It is so important though to know what it is and what happens. I learned that women don't usually know much about sex and men know a lot. That is really interesting and I didn't know that. It just depends on the person and if their parents talk to them about it before marriage or learning it in school. It is very important to know what happens and what to do with physical intimacy before marriage.     Women hav...

       It is said that when getting married in your early twenties the marriage is more likely to fail and not last long. While others are saying if you wait to get married when you are in your late twenties the marriage is more likely to succeed. This could be true for some but it is also false with other marriages. So many people are getting married in their early twenties, I did, I was actually nineteen when I got married and it has only been two years but I know it will last forever. There are terms used for age groups when getting married. If you get married in your early twenties that is called "cornerstone" because they provide a foundation as partners forge family life and hit milestones like, education, careers and finances together. Where if you get married in your late twenties that is called "capstone" because the individuals have already launch something and are set in their careers and most likely already graduated college and have moved up in life. ...