Living with your family: what are the real issues?
At the time of the debate on marriage for all, the family is a concept with very variable geometry. There are multiple forms of family and according to specialists, no model would be better or more true than the others. The family is a set, a microcosm in constant evolution, but which imposes, whatever its model, its lot of rejoicing and obligations. The life of family today involves several issues: living together, detaching and preserving the link.
To live in several
If the debate persists on the multiple forms of familyit is, however, accepted that members of a single family are most likely to live under the same roof. But living together, sharing a room or a living room when you are all very different, it's not always easy. Is there a miracle recipe for it to work? As far as knowing it right away, there is none. However, as in any system, some settings can facilitate movement. Under one roof, the life of family must be based on rules known to everyone. The secret of a good cohabitation would therefore lie in the general capacity to manage the sharing of household chores, decide the sanctions in case of conflict, participate in the smooth running of meals, accept or not the use of the phone by teens, or respect the intimate life of everyone.
Manage separation
In general, the life of family is a succession of deadlines and separations. Separation from the mother when it is necessary to bottle-feed or enter the nursery, family cocoon that must leave to live his student life, cord that must be cut to become an adult, or position of son or daughter he must be freed to become a parent yourself. Learn to live in familyis ultimately to prepare to live alone in society, without protection, in total autonomy.
Preserve the link
The secret of a life of family in the end, would it not be successful in the possibility of always returning to it? To compose with the differences of each one in the sharing of the same territory, to leave this reassuring frame to assert itself individually and without constraint, and to protect this indefinable link that exists between its different members.
