Gunner White

 Stress has been something that I have not really had to deal with. I think it's been because of my outlook on life and how I view things, although a family is not something that I have experienced yet and I think that that is going to be one of the only things that will provide some type of stress in my life. Usually how I look at things is... if I can control the outcome, then I'll control the outcome and it'll be fine. If I can't control the outcome then worrying about it does absolutely nothing and there's no point in stressing over it. The main thing that I think will change that is I will have a family later on, and not having control of things that only effect me seems totally fine, but not having control over something that is going to negatively effect my wife and my kids is definitely going to cause some gray hairs to grow on my head. I think a relationship is a huge tool to use when dealing with stress, because now it's not just you vs the problem, it...

 One of the things that I was thinking about this week and was able to have a discussion about in one of my classes was the ability to have friends when you're married. Obviously it's okay to have friends while your married, but the thing that I was questioning was if it was okay to have a friend of the opposite gender. It was said that a large cause of cheating in relationships are caused by having friends of the opposite sex and hanging out with them without your spouse being there. It is still entirely possible to have friends of the opposite sex but they usually come from having friends that are a couple that you hang out with, with your spouse. I personally don't think I am going to have an issues explaining to my wife why I have so many female friends because the only girls that I talk to consistently are the ones I'm related to, but in all seriousness, I think it has been interesting learning more and more about what it is to be a couple and how to have a healthy...

 I think one of the things that I was interested in the most to talk about today was the way people date so they can be prepared for marriage. There is a process to these things and it's very interesting that it's not as followed as it used to be. Usually, you start out as friends, then you go into courtship, then an engagement, and finally marriage. Starting out friends seems to make a lot of sense but the way that the world is currently, dating your "friends" is not very popular, most people just skip the friendship part and jump straight to courtship. I think marrying a friend would be a splendid idea, especially dating someone I knew first as a friend, mostly because it would make the dating process so much easier. You already know that you like them and that you get along, so the dating process doesn't have to take so long, and you can move to the engagement stage fairly quickly. Then the engagement stage is just practicing for the marriage portion and from t...