Answer at least one of the following questions or craft a free response that captures what your wheel helped you learn about your relationships with your family.
- How much time do you spend with your family? Would you like to spend more, or less time, with them?
- What role does your family have in making you the person you are today? In other words, what part do they serve in all those memories and personality traits you wrote about?
- What effect do they have on you? Mostly positive or mostly negative?
- Why do you think this is?
- Is one of your family members a person to whom you consider yourself the closest?
As I look at my personal interaction wheel, I realize that my family is often the group that I spend the least amount of time with but whom I'd like to spend more. Particularly in my day-to-day life during the school year, most of my time is spent with students and colleagues as opposed to my family . I am at school for at least 50 hours a week, and only see my parents, for example, every couple weeks for a meal. This was a valuable insight to me and helped me realize that I should be sure my time is spent on what I most value. Regardless of the time spent, however, I realize that my family is the unit that makes the biggest difference in who I am as a person and they are always my best friends, and the people who I most trust, whether that time is spent or not.
