Zack's Blog™

 Week 10 This week focused mainly on communication, with families, relationships, and also with God. I loved this topic because communication is something that is very important to me, I believe that we must be true to our word, and forthcoming when it comes to any interaction with others. Being able to honestly and effectively communicate will enhance every aspect of your life, whether that be your career, finances, friendships, living situations, dating/marriage life, raising your children, and becoming equally yoked with God. An important aspect of honesty that is sometimes overlooked is that a person can only be honest when they are determined and persistent in accomplishing the things they say they will do. Here are a few examples, when we pray to God for direction, we must be willing to make sacrifices and travel the road He would have for us; when we commit to helping a friend with a certain task, we do not give up at the first difficulty or inconvenience; when we give ourselves

  This week in class we discussed a lot about how we can form long-lasting, healthy relationships with our family, particularly during the engagement process of a young couple. There were some interesting insights and perspectives shared among the other students as well as the professor, one that stood out to me was when somebody said, "Whoever cares the least is the one who controls the closeness of a relationship." This was said in the context of who presents the possibility of marriage first, the man or the woman, but can also be applied to many other kinds of relationships as well. The idea is that whoever sets the broadest and most restricting boundaries controls many aspects of a relationship such as how frequently they see each other and what are they willing to share. This principle is almost always true for every kind of relationship and can be either a useful and healthy tool for pacing the growth of the relationship, or it can be manipulative and corrupting if it m