Integrity Stage Of Life Essay

My daughter today is 6 years old and, my son is going to be 5 years soon and its been about 5 years that I have been divorced. They are aware that daddy is no longer with mommy and even when they question me why aren’t we together sometimes it’s difficult explaining that daddy and mommy don’t love each other anymore and that there dad is now married. My children understand that daddy has a wife and mommy works and goes to school. It took me almost 3 years when I realized that my heart was healed and that I was living my dream that I wanted for so long. I am currently working a full time job that offers great benefits and great pay, I am in school and about to graduate in the spring 2017. Looking forward, in getting my masters, still debating

Despair stage of life. Analyzing Carmen, she is in the Integrity stage of her life because she is retired, and sees herself being a successful women , even though she went through a divorce she was able to leave that relationship in the past and was able to own her own business and own her home. Carmen has traveled to many different places and is happy with her life; her children are all grown and have their own family. Carmen stated during the interview that, she felt that her job here at earth felt completed and that if god was ready to take her she was ready. Analyzing, Elsa and comparing her with Erikson’s developmental milestones she is at the Generativity vs. Stagnation she is in the middle adulthood which Erikson states is from ages 40-65 years old. Elsa, has been very successful in life by setting her career on track, she once started as a teller and is now a Regional Manager for a bank, and has her B.A in business, and has her small business on the side that she enjoys doing. She was able to raise her children who are grown and who have a successful life. According to Erikson I am in the Intimacy vs. Isolation, Erikson states that this stage occurs when you are a young adult from ages (ages 18 to 40 yrs), he states that at this stage we begging to share ourselves more intimately with others and that we explore relationships leading toward longer term commitments with

Even though, it is a difficult transition for the family, with time and having family and friends at your side when you need to talk to is the best gift a person can have in order to start healing. When interviewing Carmen, and Elsa even if they experimented physical and verbally abuse they decided to leave those relationship and move on with their life. I can relate with this two women, in how we got inspired to not settle for less and to live life to the fullest and too spread our wings and be anything we want to be because we can. The hardest part of the interview was trying to get full detailed on Carmen, and Elsa story I think that a life event is never easy to talk about and that sometimes you can even get a teary eye when you remember. I realized that everyone who has gone through a divorce feels the disappointment, heart ache. A divorce not only affect’s you as a person but also affects your children and your family. When time passes and you have healed from the divorce you went through, you smile at life because it teaches you how to be a stronger, and a fighter, you value yourself as a woman, and you know what you will not tolerate any more and what you are