Daniel Sugarman's Essay: Keeping The Peace At Home
Keeping the Peace
In Daniel Sugarman’s essay, “Seven Ways to Keep the Peace at Home,” he discusses how living together in close quarters, family members must cope with each other’s moods, problems, worries, and pressures. However, Sugarman speaks about several suggestions for diffusing tense situations at home, but the following helped me: tell it like you feel it, make blueprints flexible, and to abdicate old emotions.
First of all, being sincere with your family and friends leaves no room for error. For example, my uncle’s wife’s sister was getting married to a police officer that lived in Florida. In addition, my wife and I were cordially invited to attend, because the couple needed a camera man to film the wedding. My uncle’s-in-laws …show more content…
When people enter into any new relationship, they come to the new with a lot of old fears and unhealed emotional wounds (Daniel Sugarman p757). For example, I had an ex-girlfriend that goes by the name Maria. She was the last girl that I was intimate with before my wife Anita. Maria and I went our separate ways, because she did not want permanent commitment for the second time. Therefore, I moved forward without her, because I was in search of a soul mate. Six months later, I met Anita while attending an Emergency Medical Technical course at Southwestern College. Ironically, we were taking the same course with similar backgrounds; prior work history in medical field. Shortly after, we became study partners, and then passionate companions. Six months later, we got married and had two beautiful girls. Ten years later, I received a friend request via Facebook from my ex-girlfriend Maria. Secretly, I accepted the request; therefore Anita would have been upset, if she found out about Maria. Three months passed and Anita is still not aware of my friendship with my ex-girlfriend Maria. Then one day, I forgot and left my Facebook account unlocked; Anita found out the wrong way. It was a day I will never forget; I could not sleep for weeks, because I would be reminded of my treachery. As a result, I closed my Facebook account and never spoke to Maria
In Daniel Sugarman’s essay, “Seven Ways to Keep the Peace at Home,” he discusses how living together in close quarters, family members must cope with each other’s moods, problems, worries, and pressures. However, Sugarman speaks about several suggestions for diffusing tense situations at home, but the following helped me: tell it like you feel it, make blueprints flexible, and to abdicate old emotions.
First of all, being sincere with your family and friends leaves no room for error. For example, my uncle’s wife’s sister was getting married to a police officer that lived in Florida. In addition, my wife and I were cordially invited to attend, because the couple needed a camera man to film the wedding. My uncle’s-in-laws …show more content…
When people enter into any new relationship, they come to the new with a lot of old fears and unhealed emotional wounds (Daniel Sugarman p757). For example, I had an ex-girlfriend that goes by the name Maria. She was the last girl that I was intimate with before my wife Anita. Maria and I went our separate ways, because she did not want permanent commitment for the second time. Therefore, I moved forward without her, because I was in search of a soul mate. Six months later, I met Anita while attending an Emergency Medical Technical course at Southwestern College. Ironically, we were taking the same course with similar backgrounds; prior work history in medical field. Shortly after, we became study partners, and then passionate companions. Six months later, we got married and had two beautiful girls. Ten years later, I received a friend request via Facebook from my ex-girlfriend Maria. Secretly, I accepted the request; therefore Anita would have been upset, if she found out about Maria. Three months passed and Anita is still not aware of my friendship with my ex-girlfriend Maria. Then one day, I forgot and left my Facebook account unlocked; Anita found out the wrong way. It was a day I will never forget; I could not sleep for weeks, because I would be reminded of my treachery. As a result, I closed my Facebook account and never spoke to Maria