The desk clerk asked if I wanted a family membership or a single membership. I had to stop and think for a moment. I was a husband and a father. But my children weren t going to play racquetball with me each week. Single membership, I said, as I wrote out the check for the fee.
Families take on many different forms in our world.
We have our families of origin. We have our families through marriage. And if we are divorced, we have yet another family system the single-parent family. Some single parents have told me that since their divorce they don t feel they re part of a family anymore. They feel like bits and pieces of a system that no longer exists.