All aboard!

Were you aware of it?

I learned about marital satisfaction over the course of the family life cycle today. Marital satisfaction follows a U-Shaped curve. It's high (about 50% of couples are "very satisfied" with their marriages) just after getting married, and then it begins to slowly decrease until the couple has children in elementary school (at this point, only about 10% are "very satisfied"). After this low-point, satisfaction slowly increases. By the time the kids are out on their own, it's returned to the 50% mark.

(I also neglected to tell you that my "Were you aware of it" message idea was stolen from John Hodgman's book: The Areas of My Expertise. I highly recommend it. Especially the audiobook.)

The internship continues to continue. I got a guided tour of Wyandotte County yesterday to survey all of the diversity. There's a Hilton just a few blocks from a street that I felt uncomfortable even driving down. In fact, as we were driving down said street a group of entrepreneurs tried to come up to the car to sell us drugs. Quite forward of them, I thought. My tour guide also kindly pointed out Fritz's Railroad Restaurant, where you call your order in from the booth on a phone, and then the food gets delivered to you via a track and mechanical arm thing.. but the most important part of all this excitement is that I was told they have THE BEST chocolate milkshakes. I must investigate soon. In the meantime, I'm starting to do intakes all by myself - soon I'll have a caseload just like a real live therapist! And I'm helping with a couple of groups at The Center. Hooray!