Thursday, February 5, 2009

My Genogram

My genogram pretty much follows what a lot of other people have been saying with theirs. There really isn't a whole lot of weird stuff that will be present in mine, however there is something interesting I have noticed while sitting down and thinking about my family. I never realized how many times members of my family are engaged to a person and break it off or married and then divorced, and then get married again to a person who they stay with for decades and have kids with. I started thinking about my mom, who was first married to a guy from her high school at 19. The marriage lasted for 3 years and they had no kids from it. While she was married though, she met my dad in college while they were both working for their degree in accounting. She never cheated on her husband with my dad, but after she got a divorce from him (he was emotionally abusive) she started dating my dad about a year later and they got married had 3 kids and are still together. My aunt has a somewhat similar story. She was engaged to a man who she broke it off with because he was sleazy, then she was married to a man who cheated on her not even a year into their marriage, then she married my uncle and they had my 3 cousins together, but recently then ended up getting a divorce. Another aunt I had was engaged to a man for 3 years and a few months before her wedding, he broke it off with her. It took her a few years but she started dating again, found a nice man to settle down with, got married and had my other 3 cousins together. I never really noticed how much divorce had been in our family until I really thought about it. I doesn't even occur to me all that much that my mom was married before she found my dad. Even though it's still early on with our genograms, I have already uncovered quite a bit about my family that never really occurred to me. I'm curious what else I'm going to find as I search deeper and deeper into family's history.

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