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      Are we dating or hanging out? Are we trying to find a husband or a friend? Some will argue that we want our husband or significant other to be our friend, and we do in a way, but there needs to be more. We will not find our husband by simply hanging out with someone until curfew or until we have to clock into work.      Dating is a huge indicator about how life will be after marriage and can often foretell the problems that will be found ten years down the road. When we are dating we form habits for our future. These habits should be guided by the three P's that summarize the role of the man in the relationship and by the divine role given to women. The three P's are preside, protect, and provide meaning that the dates should give the guy opportunities to fulfill all three of these areas. An example of presiding in a date setting is planning. A guy should be considerate of what the girl is interested in. Does he give her a heads-up of what the plan will be? Does he just t

     Recognizing that this might be a very sensitive topic I just want to preface this post with a reminder that it is ok to have a different point of view. It is also not meant in any way to hurt or offend anyone. With that being said let's get into what I got to say for this week on gender roles in the family and the world.  Man and woman are the two different genders. Each has a divine design and divine difference, just the way God intended us to be. There is an innate difference between males and females and that is okay. In fact, that is how God planned it. In 1995 President Gordon B. Hinckley read "the FAMILY A PROCLAMATION TO THE WORLD" this clearly states that God intended for man and woman to be different and to work as a team in all things but especially in families and in raising children. It is in this proclamation that the Living Prophet of God's Church stated that when the two genders were created with a bigger purpose and long before our life here on e

  Do you ever have those moments when you feel like you sound exactly like your parents? Or when a friend or sibling calls you out for being just like your mom or dad? Or sometimes being like your Grandma or Grandpa? Well this week in my Family Relations class Brother Michael D. Williams said something that really stuck out to me. You know, like those moments when someone says something and it's like a light switch got flipped and all of a sudden you understand the world. That is what this comment was for me, he said "The word familiar comes from family. That's why we feel like we sometimes feel like we turn into our parents." It clicked for me in high stress situations or high emotion situations we go to what is familiar to us. That is why we turn into our parents. It is literally how our brain is wired. Our family is our family, good or bad, for better or for worse. These habits can be changed with a lot of hard work and constant, consistent effort in hopes of being