Mate Selection

I found yesterday's class extremely interesting. I had never sat down and thought of how people choose each other to spend the rest of their lives together. It is a very big step and a lot of thought goes into it, or sometimes as we talked about it in class, no much. I had never heard of these test you can take before you get married, such as RELATE and The Prepare, or FOCCUS. They are not very well publicly known I feel. After I heard about them in class I went online to see it was well known. There are tons of websites online that have these kinds of tests. It is fantastic. It sounds like they would help at all, because you think you know someone, but you may forget to talk about little things. Dr. Hollist mentioned in class about a couple who one person wanted to have six kids and the other wanted one. It is amazing that such things can get pasted by. This is why I think these test are well worth the time and money.
I also that it was very interesting how much people who are dating play games. When you are in a relationship and playing games, you do not always realize what you are doing. It was funny to talk about them in class and talk about the reasons why people play games when they are in relationships. There are two different types of games; destructive and constructive. This sort of surprised me. Playing games with peoples heads always sounds destructive to me, but I learned that some games have good intentions and can have good outcomes. I really enjoyed this class disscussion and look forward to more in the furture.