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  I am just going to start off by saying this, I have never had a serious romantic relationship. I can also count the number of times I have ever had a serious crush on one hand. To make a long story short, romantic love or anything related to it is an alien concept in my eyes. It isn’t to say that I don’t experience things like attraction, it’s just that it is so infrequent that it often has left me feeling more confused than anything. The times I have felt love for someone, it was usually with someone I was really close to, someone I had shared many experiences with. Although, I guess it is not appropriate to call that true romantic love as I never felt the need to “be” with them. I suppose the type of love I tend to feel is known as companionate love, which basically involves me having to be close to the other person in most aspects of my life (ch. 11, pg. 290). That being said, even though the class is ending, using the information given to me so far, I hope to become more awar...

  In every culture, there is at least some belief that jobs,  and work are important. I agree with this in every possible way. However, one of the things about jobs that has been difficult for me to understand is workplace relationships. Maybe this is just immaturity speaking, as most of my socialization came from going to school, but some of the things that happen at jobs are confusing. In a weird way, people who work together are like family and friends but not at the same time. There’s such a high turnover that one minute someone is there,  and you get along really well, and the next day, they quit,  and you never see them again. I guess the best way to describe this type of relationship is just what it is, a workplace relationship. To put it bluntly, it is a relationship on the site from which you go to work (ch. 14, pg. 384). It can be many things, but the common element is that it originates from a jobsite. Personally, some of my current best friends are from m...

From the time I started high school to the day I turned eighteen, I started to exercise my ability to make decisions. I figured at that time that I was smart enough to judge whether something was a good decision or not, so I had the idea that I should have been able to do what I wanted. There was a little problem, however. My parents did not share my view. They believed that only after I turn eighteen would I gain some freedom. I asked why, because as someone who was close to adult age, it seemed reasonable. They simply replied with something along the lines of “because I said so.” That point onwards has brought to my attention the concept of power dynamics. As the parents, they believe that they can tell me to do whatever just because they gave me life. Even now, in my twenties, they still do this. Well, I think that will change. As I get older, it will start being less acceptable to order me around. Just today, I learned of another concept known as structural improvements. This when ...