Week 6

This week we discussed transitions in marriage. It reminded me of the transitions that I experienced when I got married. There are lots of transitions in marriage. The biggest and hardest transition that I dealt with was dealing with the adjustment of being alone. I grew up with five siblings, so there was always a lot going on in our house and I was rarely home alone. Once I got married there was only the two of us. So when my husband would be at work I would be at home alone and bored out of my mind. My husband worked A LOT and would have to work until 1 or so in the morning. I also grew up in a town where my whole extended family lived and we were all really close. My husband and I lived in Rexburg for the first year of our marriage and neither of us have any family living in Rexburg or even close to Rexburg. It was a HUGE adjustment to be home alone most of the time and not having any family near. I learned that I really had to keep myself busy and cling to my husband. Because I got so used to only having my husband (and friends) around, even now three years later I find myself still depending on my husband not my family anymore. I think this helped me to learn to depend on my husband and not my parents and family.