Dear all,
we start this year with the first topic in our course:
Marriage and love affairs.
However, this title is getting more and more outdated, due to the emergence of new family models, and new modes of loving and relating. How to speak now of "love affairs"? How to talk only about heterosexual marriage (still the biggest and largest institution, true, but not any more the mandatory one) if there are so many other ways of establishing relationships?
What matters now is freedom. Osho used to say that freedom is above love, because there cannot be love without freedom.
Freedom is essential for establishing authentic love relationships. Freedom is scary, though. It does not imply doing whatever youone want, it requires a great deal of responsibility for the free choices you make. And many people fear taking responsibility over their one own life decisions. That is why dictatorships exist or have existed, and some people have even preferred them to democracies. It is easier not to take decisions. You stay in your comfort zone, you don't take risks, someone else, or society, takes them for you.
Well, the same goes for marriage. Probably most people marry because they really want to, but others may just marry because it is "the thing to do", what they are supposed to do. And they do not even think, deep inside, whether it is really what they really want to do. So of course, later on comes divorce...and so on.
And you? What do you think about society and the new ways of creating a family and bonding?
Have you watched Modern Family?
Do you remember Married and with Children?
Share your ideas and experiences with us!
If you want to practice your reading skills, you can check this article too: New Family Models: Same-Sex Marriage and Descendants
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137033949_5
PS. Please note: the personal opinions conveyed here are just mine, no indoctrination or whatsoever is aimed with them. This blog is an informalwhy way of encouraging English as a Foreign Language students to write and practice their English skills. The ideas contained in them are just examples of how to express views and ideas, no judgement should be made on either of them.
we start this year with the first topic in our course:
Marriage and love affairs.
However, this title is getting more and more outdated, due to the emergence of new family models, and new modes of loving and relating. How to speak now of "love affairs"? How to talk only about heterosexual marriage (still the biggest and largest institution, true, but not any more the mandatory one) if there are so many other ways of establishing relationships?
What matters now is freedom. Osho used to say that freedom is above love, because there cannot be love without freedom.
Freedom is essential for establishing authentic love relationships. Freedom is scary, though. It does not imply doing whatever you
Well, the same goes for marriage. Probably most people marry because they really want to, but others may just marry because it is "the thing to do", what they are supposed to do. And they do not even think, deep inside, whether it is really what they really want to do. So of course, later on comes divorce...and so on.
And you? What do you think about society and the new ways of creating a family and bonding?
Have you watched Modern Family?
Do you remember Married and with Children?
Share your ideas and experiences with us!
If you want to practice your reading skills, you can check this article too: New Family Models: Same-Sex Marriage and Descendants
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137033949_5
PS. Please note: the personal opinions conveyed here are just mine, no indoctrination or whatsoever is aimed with them. This blog is an informal
