Nov 12-18 Discussion #3

I found the Family Life Cycle very interesting as I have never heard of it before. There are seven stages of the cycle including : establishing a family, enlarging a family, developing a family, encouraging independence, launching children, postlaunching of children, and retirement. It’s fascinating because having a family is one of my life long dreams. Thinking about a future family in terms of the stages is overwhelming but very exciting as well. I have always had established family goals that I thought I would do by a certain age. Since I have started my career I have realized that not everything begins or can end when we predict them too. I have met many parents and married couples that also thought they would have children or get married by a certain age but it rarely happens as planned. I now have the outlook of going with the flow of life’s unexpected events and hoping for the best.