It's obvious that blending two different family lives and traditions into one is no easy task. It's vital that as newlyweds, you work out problems that could arise from learning how to live together. They could be anything from adjusting to sleeping with another person in the same bed, to the way you squeeze your toothpaste. While you do this it's important to constantly tell your significant other that you love them so they feel that the problems don't effect your love for them. 
Another thing that I found really interesting is the way children can effect a couple. Happiness in a marriage significantly drops after the first child is born and even more with each one.

One thing that stuck out to me in class was the way that we should start relationships. The way you start it is an indicator of how the relationship will play out. It seems that it's very common in our society to bring in the physical aspect in a relationship way before other vital aspects like trust and respect are established. It's important that everything in a relationship is balanced and moves at the same pace. 
The 3 P's are vital in dating and courtship. Planned, paid for, and paired off. They help keep a relationship solid and when followed can really prepare you for the one you're going to marry. It helps make everyone you date previously become a stepping stone to that final step, the one that you know is better than the others and you can spend eternity with.

I have always been against the typical stereotype housewife. My boyfriend has learned the hard way to not make sexist jokes and well, HE makes ME sandwiches. I've learned from The Proclamation to the World that a wife needs to nurture her children so that's what I'm going to work my hardest to accomplish in every way possible. Because of all the different family situations, it's impossible to fit all families in the mold of certain jobs for certain people; however, I do believe that marriage should be between a man and wife. Let me clarify, I do not have anything against homosexuals, I just believe that marriage has been ordained between only a man and woman by God.

Sometimes I have the tendency to get stuck in the lie that all families are the same. That everybody gets taught the same morals by their families. And that every eight year-old's bedtime was 8:30. (I was shocked when I found out that my eight year-old friend's bedtime was 9:30!). The difference also comes with our cultures and their customs. Studying cultures and contrasting them is fascinating