Issues In Marriage & Family

There’s a lot more that can go wrong in a relationship besides infidelity.For the past two weeks our Issues In Marriage & Family class has been studying the 1989 Movie, The War of The Roses. Tonight the class was divided up into groups and each group discussed a different phase of the relationship. From meeting and falling in love, to courtship and marriage to the deterioration of the relationship- we covered it all with indept discussions about where the couple went wrong and how their miscommunications affected their friendships.We discussed how their view points in the role they played in the family was mismatched- Her resentment after child rearing for giving up on her dreams- His insensitivity to the importance of her own career goals- How her passive aggressive behavior indirectly communicated her disatisfaction but the subtle actions went straight over his head. If you haven’t seen it, take a night and rent it to see if you can discover for yourself how two people who met, fell in love and had the “perfect family” could end up killing each other by the movie’s end.I can’t believe I’m actually studying this type of stuff. I couldn’t even come up with an intervention point. My intervention would have been before they even got married because it was obvious that these two had completely different ideals of the roles they wanted to play in their partnership.