While reading in our book of rules theory a few rules that have always been unspoken, but always followed came to mind. We had always had chores in our house, but we were not told to do them. It was just understood at a very young age that if my mother had to tell us to do our chores we would be in serious trouble. My father used to always joke that she trained us very well for our future relationships. Nevertheless, this was the truth, but our obsession with a clean house is maddening at times. This is only because its frustrating when people don't understand our house order. My mothers favorite thing was code and she still does it to this day. When we are out of milk she will leave the empty jug on the counter to remind someone to get milk. Another example is that she will take the lid off the trash can and that is the code to take the trash out. We sarcastically will tease my mother about her code system, but my whole life she has denied send us any type of code. …show more content…
I would like to say that it was easier to follow the rules my parents had when I was younger, because we did not have so many outsider opinions constantly pushed on us via the internet, cellphones or even boyfriends or girlfriends. My father had a rules that we were not allowed to date until we were 18. It really was not that upsetting to me, but my sister hated that rules. She tried several times to convince my father that she was old enough to have a boyfriend. He never backed down from his rules about dating. When I started dating my first boyfriend at 18 we went to church together and he would come over for family game night. That was the main summary of our relationship and I never tried to sneak around his