My Family Genogram: My Motheral Side Of The Family

I began my genogram with my immediate family. Currently living at home is my father, my mother, and myself. My sister is away attending college at Ball State University and fairly often comes home to spend a weekend or holiday with us at home. From there, my father’s side of the family is fairly simple. His parents were not previously married before each other. They had three boys of which he was the eldest. One of the brothers married and had three boys of his own, while the other brother is cohabitating with his male partner. My mother’s side of the family was a bit more complex to genogram. She was previously married twice before my father, but with no children from either of those marriages. She has a brother who was married, but

Primarily this was the pattern of multiple marriages or long-term cohabitations by women on my maternal side; however, this genogram does not give me a clearer picture on why this pattern exists. It does make me wonder if this has given my mother and father very different perspectives on relationships and what how that impacts their marriage either positively or negatively. Any impact from this may also be influenced by the facts that my father’s parents are still alive and married, whereas my mother’s parents are deceased with her mother living with a long-term romantic partner after becoming a

As my father has been attending here since he was in elementary school and my sister and I since we were each born, it has a strong influence in our lives. This influence is not necessarily religious in nature, but more strongly plays the role of a social support. Growing up, I often spoke of North Church, as it is more often nicknamed, as a second home or second family to me. However, I added a bidirectional arrow to this relationship because I realized that it is most definitely a two-way street. My family does receive a lot of social support, friendship, and structure from our church community, but we give to it as well. We give financially, but much beyond that also contribute social resources back into the church. My family together has coordinated many events, my father is on many committees, and my sister and I have participated in many fellowship or musical groups there. Realizing that truly was a bidirectional relationship, meaning we offer resources and strength to the church in addition to its offering those things back to us, helped me to better understand one of the biggest influences on my family as a whole. My paternal grandparents were another family-wide shared influence. Not only do they attend church with us, but they are the only extended family to which we are in very close proximity. We are in almost constant communication with them,