Ten Questions About...

Expectations of Family

What is positive about your relationship with your mother?
What is negative about your relationship with your mother?
What is positive about your relationship with your father?
What is negative about your relationship with your father?
What is positive or negative about your relationships with siblings?
In what ways are you ready to be a mother or father?
In what ways do you feel unprepared to be a mother or father?
What is your ideal for your family relationship?
What would need to change for that to become a reality?
What will help or prevent that change?

Related Scriptures

Ephesians 5:31
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

Colossians 3:18-20
1Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.

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