Relationship Reflection
My daughter Karli and My granddaughters’
Alice and Mandi.
Alice and her Baby
Mandi a rockin!
My two sons are Jake and Danny and I cannot download their pictures from my other computer! The relationship I have with my daughter has grown tremendously since she had her children. We are closer now than ever before. My sons have grown to be wonderful men and are always ready to help out with the home when I ask. I depend a lot on them when it comes to maintaining the home and my car due to being divorced and single.
The factors that most contributed to developing and maintaining my relationship with my children are that we depended a lot on each other through the years after the divorce. Another factor is that I did not have a close relationship with my mother and I wanted to make sure my children had that with me, and now my grandchildren.
The challenges I have found in developing and maintaining other outside relationships is lack of time, and any spare time I do have I want to share with my children. I believe now that the special characteristics in my relationships, with my now grown children, are that I am more of a mentor especially with my daughter as she is raising her own family. My experiences with my children greatly impacts my work as I am able to share these experiences (good and bad) with my co workers and clients to help them with their concerns and issues.
