Week 12...The final full week!

This week we discussed blended families and divorce. Erik Erikson has a theory of stages of life that we all go through. The last two stages are what we mostly discussed. The Mid-life stage is Generativity vs. Stagnation. In our "old-age" we reach the final stage, Integration vs. Despair. With these stages we have some "issues" that we go through. Some of the issues that we discussed were, heath declining, "Sandwich" generation, money, depression, appearance, death, empty nest, marital issues. There are positives and negatives to all of these. The one that I would like to talk about the most is the "sandwich" generation. This is where you are at the age where you have children but you are also taking care of your parents/grandparents that are elderly. Although Jared is only 27 and we only have one child, I kind of feel like he has a taste of this already. He is helping his parents constantly and always finding ways to serve them. This is one of the things I love most about him. One of his biggest concerns about moving to the east coast of Canada is that his parents will be across the country, and he won't be able to help them as much as they need.