Personal Narrative: Through My Life

Through my life, my grandmother has been a constant source of support who provided our family with loving care over many decades. She has experienced many struggles, triumphs, changes, and up’s and downs over the course of her life. As Hutchinson points out throughout the text book. A life course perspective is something that shapes a person’s life throughout many phases. The many phases that Kathleen has experienced in her life has shaped her into the person she has become today. From the very beginning of her life the cohort she was born into provided many challenges that she had to overcome. She has faced many life events and turning points that have directed her to make changes within her life. While these changes sometimes difficult she has made multiple transitions into fulling her life in positive and healthy ways.
Through his nine stages of development Erik Erikson points out several milestones that a person must complete before they can successfully move on to the next stages of life. These stages are required and if not …show more content…
It is during this stage that young people begin to love and care for others. Erikson stage of development intimacy vs. isolation suggest that young adults develop the capacity to commit to others. This can be seen as spouses, children, or close friends. During this stage of development Kathleen married her husband Daniel and had two children. While there was serval transitions from living environments to additions of family members and jobs that both Kathleen and Daniel experienced during this time period. The tow managed to stay connected in a positive relationship. Erikson does point out that “real intimacy is only possible once a reasonable sense of identity has been established. As in this case the relationship between the two developed into strong bonds that help keep the family together through many difficult issues they