My family and family history starts like most peoples’. Two people fell in love, they had youngsters, their kids acquired kids and so on and so forth. Nevertheless where we all come from and who we could, is a different story. From our European beginnings, to the combining of our blood vessels once my children migrated to America, my family is quite intricate but one that I i am proud of and love significantly. I want to start out with my father’s side with the family as you may know a little more about where we all came from.
From what we should know, his relatives lived in Ireland until the time of the great Irish Potato Famine. When they arrived in America my father’s relatives resolved down To the south, but somewhere down the line, someone moved North. This delivers me to my Superb Grandma Martha. She and her spouse lived around Coldwater The state of michigan where they will settled and had my Grandmother Lela and her siblings, Lee Combs, Lewis Combs and her one sister that we do not remember her name. My Grandma Lela meet and married my Grandpa Albert Donihue. My personal grandpa got one sibling and 3 brothers Harley, Roland and Carlos.
Again we do not remember the name of the sister. When my grandpa and grandma settled in Coldwater Michigan, my grandma gave birth to my personal Aunt Gwenda, Aunt Marty and my father, Mike Donihue. One essential detail to be aware of about my dad is that he was born inside the 50’s, which is very much a baby boomer. My personal Aunt Gwenda married my Uncle Carol Outwater and they had two children, Michelle and Tony. My cousin Michelle married my own cousin Mike and they experienced three kids, Krissy, Tyler, and Ethan Moore and my aunty Tony hitched my aunty Bridget and in addition they had 3 children Tucker, Carson and Bella Outwater. My Great aunt Marty was married to my Dad Don yet he passed away when I was obviously a little girl.
Before this individual passed that they had.. the head from the household, therefore he had the authority. Nevertheless my mom did not want to feel like my father was above her. She sensed as though he was at the same degree of power since she. My father “tended to work with power in a manner that assure the maintenance of his own more powerful position (Balswick 14).
This did not help our family much whatsoever. We started to be what the Balswick s call a “hurting family. As I was reading through the chapters I ran across the section, in section one, that talks about the hurting family. This caught out because it almost properly summed up how my dad was if he lived around. “Hurting families tend to hold back grace, typically demanding irrational perfection and blaming these members whom don’t measure up. Individuals in these families dread they will make a mistake and be turned down because of their failing to meet the standards (Balswick 20).