Let a little game: Close your eyes and imagine it's been ten years and are at home, sitting at dinner with your family. Visualize, still with eyes closed, feeling completely at ease within the full extent that you can call home, is yours, you feel accompanied and this company, your family, that makes you feel strong, safe and powerful or safe and powerful. Ready? Open your eyes and goes with your eyes or those who accompany you on the table. Is your family sitting around?
Most who do this exercise, actually not include your partner in the display, because for some reason not considered part of your family or as your family itself, strangely enough if we consider it to him or her to build a project who presumably will last a life.
What is family? Today it is a social time in which old patterns are being discarded to make way for new, more tailored to our needs modern and more realistic. The concept of family is one of them. Until recent decades, the family model consisted of a father, mother, two or more children and even a cute dog name, but suddenly the women and men found that the divorce was worth when the situation became untenable couples, and families then came a dad, one or more children and a dog, a mom or dad's place. It also happened that there was never a father and left with a single parent, children and the dog or the mother falls in love with her best friend and then have two mothers, children and the dog, maybe two dads, or better yet, a father, mother, two children and a dog.
seem that the world no two families are alike, with a dad or two or none, with two moms or just one or even no more than one child or no one a dog kennel two to complete, perhaps a cat or a Komodo dragon, children, adopted children or nosy mother will not return home, the friend who came to stay for five years supposedly only a few months and so on; these are all possibilities of a family model very specific dynamics of interaction for everyone. Each example that comes to mind can, in turn, be the model of a perfectly functional family.
So what is a family? From the above it is clear that this is a group of people, two or more, linked by strong ties to each other, emotional ties that make significant each other. There is interest mutual solidarity, empathy and support and shared plans that evolve alongside the projects of each other's lives. Usually these are people who share the same roof, but there is no rule that determines which always must be. And finally, his purpose is to train, so to speak, a team to face the vicissitudes of life. In the family people find the momentum to move forward and can be united by ties of blood, but may also be otherwise.
there are many types of families, but to respect these lines, we will say only that there is a biological family on one side and the family of choice on the other. Both important, but each in its respective life stage.
The biological is why it is said that you never choose your family is the social core of your birth, usually with a mom and / or a mother, maybe siblings and sometimes an extra participant as the grandmother, the uncle, or you go to know. Through it you learn how the universe works, you know the basic axioms of life and identify the site that touches you from other mortals. In essential during your childhood or adolescence, but when the time of independence, the birth family is no longer sufficient.
The family of choice is what comes after, is a circle of confidence that you are entering, one by one, people that are special to you: as some of your friends, your partner and select one or another biological family member. Build it freehand, based on a constant exercise of trial and error, to be around you the social sanctuary where you will have to guarecerte to gain strength, grow and feel supported, though not necessarily exist mutual bonds of consanguinity. This is especially crucial for girls gay and lesbian youth who require a social setting in which to express freely their homoerotic lifestyle, so it's not surprising that the gay friends meet an extremely important role because they provide for a family of choice.
And families are roles. When it comes to a biological family, we all clear what role that is expected to meet the father, or sister, but in the case of families of choice, how to know what role it is up to every one who? In this case, the role type is determined by the closeness that each has with respect to you: we talked about a circle of trust, where you're downtown, near the center are those who are most important to you as your partner or your best friend, for example. Who are closer to the center have closer links with you and there is greater mutual commitment and greater intimacy, which determines the type of relationship that will sustain you and the important role they play in your family of choice. However, something that often mar the dynamics within family circles, deals precisely with what members of your family of choice located closer to the center. When, for example, have a partner and he or she does not allow close enough where if you let a friend or your mother, for example, then you're assigning the position of greater commitment and intimacy that person and not your partner, who can not relate to you as it should, as a companion or partner, because between his position inside the circle and you, is another person who placed closer to the center. It is at these times, when they get complaints like: "... you never give me my place!", "Sound familiar?
Take a look at the circle of trust where your current family of choice, and is composed of two, five, twenty or fifty; date account of those who keep away in the periphery, and those who got close to the center: are in the place where they?, believes that the more distant you are, the less you would expect of them, while those closest to you will share more support and commitment. Draw a circle on paper and place it under names like feel to match, you can always be useful, if you believe that someone who you have forgotten because it appears closer to the periphery, almost outside your circle, but in reality I would like next to you, then keep your paper and get your phone number. Never too late to spend more time with family.
Most who do this exercise, actually not include your partner in the display, because for some reason not considered part of your family or as your family itself, strangely enough if we consider it to him or her to build a project who presumably will last a life.
What is family? Today it is a social time in which old patterns are being discarded to make way for new, more tailored to our needs modern and more realistic. The concept of family is one of them. Until recent decades, the family model consisted of a father, mother, two or more children and even a cute dog name, but suddenly the women and men found that the divorce was worth when the situation became untenable couples, and families then came a dad, one or more children and a dog, a mom or dad's place. It also happened that there was never a father and left with a single parent, children and the dog or the mother falls in love with her best friend and then have two mothers, children and the dog, maybe two dads, or better yet, a father, mother, two children and a dog.
seem that the world no two families are alike, with a dad or two or none, with two moms or just one or even no more than one child or no one a dog kennel two to complete, perhaps a cat or a Komodo dragon, children, adopted children or nosy mother will not return home, the friend who came to stay for five years supposedly only a few months and so on; these are all possibilities of a family model very specific dynamics of interaction for everyone. Each example that comes to mind can, in turn, be the model of a perfectly functional family.
So what is a family? From the above it is clear that this is a group of people, two or more, linked by strong ties to each other, emotional ties that make significant each other. There is interest mutual solidarity, empathy and support and shared plans that evolve alongside the projects of each other's lives. Usually these are people who share the same roof, but there is no rule that determines which always must be. And finally, his purpose is to train, so to speak, a team to face the vicissitudes of life. In the family people find the momentum to move forward and can be united by ties of blood, but may also be otherwise.
there are many types of families, but to respect these lines, we will say only that there is a biological family on one side and the family of choice on the other. Both important, but each in its respective life stage.
The biological is why it is said that you never choose your family is the social core of your birth, usually with a mom and / or a mother, maybe siblings and sometimes an extra participant as the grandmother, the uncle, or you go to know. Through it you learn how the universe works, you know the basic axioms of life and identify the site that touches you from other mortals. In essential during your childhood or adolescence, but when the time of independence, the birth family is no longer sufficient.
The family of choice is what comes after, is a circle of confidence that you are entering, one by one, people that are special to you: as some of your friends, your partner and select one or another biological family member. Build it freehand, based on a constant exercise of trial and error, to be around you the social sanctuary where you will have to guarecerte to gain strength, grow and feel supported, though not necessarily exist mutual bonds of consanguinity. This is especially crucial for girls gay and lesbian youth who require a social setting in which to express freely their homoerotic lifestyle, so it's not surprising that the gay friends meet an extremely important role because they provide for a family of choice.
And families are roles. When it comes to a biological family, we all clear what role that is expected to meet the father, or sister, but in the case of families of choice, how to know what role it is up to every one who? In this case, the role type is determined by the closeness that each has with respect to you: we talked about a circle of trust, where you're downtown, near the center are those who are most important to you as your partner or your best friend, for example. Who are closer to the center have closer links with you and there is greater mutual commitment and greater intimacy, which determines the type of relationship that will sustain you and the important role they play in your family of choice. However, something that often mar the dynamics within family circles, deals precisely with what members of your family of choice located closer to the center. When, for example, have a partner and he or she does not allow close enough where if you let a friend or your mother, for example, then you're assigning the position of greater commitment and intimacy that person and not your partner, who can not relate to you as it should, as a companion or partner, because between his position inside the circle and you, is another person who placed closer to the center. It is at these times, when they get complaints like: "... you never give me my place!", "Sound familiar? Take a look at the circle of trust where your current family of choice, and is composed of two, five, twenty or fifty; date account of those who keep away in the periphery, and those who got close to the center: are in the place where they?, believes that the more distant you are, the less you would expect of them, while those closest to you will share more support and commitment. Draw a circle on paper and place it under names like feel to match, you can always be useful, if you believe that someone who you have forgotten because it appears closer to the periphery, almost outside your circle, but in reality I would like next to you, then keep your paper and get your phone number. Never too late to spend more time with family.