The Family Under Stress

 Hey Everyone!

I hope all of you are doing great! This week has been a good week with a lot of challenges and stress, but good overall. Again as a friendly reminder, I just want to say that it is important to recognize that we all do not think in the same way or have the same opinions over some topics. Therefore, we should respect each other opinions even when they defer from what you think. This week in my Family Relations class we talked about Family Under Stress. 

During the class, it was brought up many circumstances and scenarios where families can be under stress and how that could affect the couple's relationship or even the entire family including children. It was mentioned the different types of crisis or stress a family could experience. Some of the types of stress could be normative, nonnormative, internal, external, etc. I chose this because I believe is the most common one. Normative being such as a birth in the family, launching to adolescence, marriage, death, or nonnormative refers to those events that are mostly unexpected such as dying young, getting a divorce, etc. As it was mentioned in the class, I thought about some examples that I have seen in my life and how they have reacted to them. When I was around 13 years old my grandmother on my dad's side passed away. I remember it was such a stressful time for all of my family due to the way she died. She was someone healthy, barely getting to her 50's and she died in a car accident. I remember her 2 sons did not see her for a couple of years because they were out of the country whereas her daughters were there with her in the same country. Now when I think about her death, I see all the stress everyone had at that time mostly because we had not experienced a death in the family until she died. In the class was mentioned that those moments of stress can help as well the family to come united together. I have been pondering about my own experience when I was 13 years old and I realized how much time we start spending and trying to be more unified as a family. We wanted to remember my grandmother and try to have a positive attitude about everything that happened.

There are many types of stress but another common one is internal stress which is the one that begins with someone inside of the family such as someone getting drunk or committing suicide or external such as things that the family cannot control. Some of them could be earthquakes, terrorism, cultural attitudes toward women, etc. Stress can be something not only affects you as a human being but the way you decide to react can also impact your family because they are the people you are with most of the time. Over the years I have realized how stress if you are able to manage it can be something such as a motivation or could also be what affects your emotional being. Stress in families can help them as well to get closer as it did for me and my family. It does not need to be a bad thing all the time.

I hope you guys can have a good week and remember how stress can help you to get closer to those ones that you love and realize that stress is not always a bad thing to have.

If you were able to read all the way through here big thank you. If you have any comments about that please share it. I hope you have a great week,

Nahomy S.