Transitional Generation

When we choose to marry, we choose to carry someone else’s baggage. Some have baggage that can fit in the overhead compartment, some have to check their bags and others have to pay extra because their bags are just too big. To marry doesn’t mean that we choose to make our kids take those same bags with them into their marriages. In his book (which I am using for a marriage class I am teaching) "Creating an Intimate Marriage," Jim Burns uses the phrase “transitional generation” about this phenomenon. We should be trying to put our kids in a better place than we were born into. He asks a question worth ruminating on. What is my generation transitioning out of to put our kids in a better place?