#The blind side professional#

It helped Michael move on in his future career by working harder. “The Blind Side” best refers to constitutive rules (Galvin et al., 2008, p.86). There are a couple family communication rules.

He was interviewed by many universities for their football program and his whole stepfamily was with him every step of the way from passing his classes to becoming a professional football player. Michael never had a family that was so over-involved and wanted his to go to the best college. Enmeshed families have extreme closeness, are loyal, and are involved in their children’s life goals. However, Leigh Anne and her family have high level of cohesion, enmeshed family. She doesn’t worry if he is sleeping on the ground. Michael and his biological mom have no type of close relationship, they mainly have a disengaged family. That is when Michael Oher and the Tuohy family began creating a loving relationship.Īdaptability and cohesion takes major part. She stopped and realized he had nowhere to sleep. In the beginning of the movie, Leigh Anne saw Michael walking to the gym alone in the cold. (2008, p.134), had three different types of commitment: personal commitment (the rewards inherent from the relationship, moral commitment (an obligation to a partner), and structural commitment (barriers to leaving the relationship and the absence of viable alternative.) In “The Blind Side,” personal commitment is where there is a loving relationship that makes another person’s life better (Galvin et al., 2008, p.137). Avery (1989) said, “trust enables you to put your deepest feelings in the palm of your partner’s hand, knowing they will be handled with care.” Another scene of Leigh Anne giving him a room to himself and Michael pouring himself to her that he has never had a bed before. Self-disclosure is when one person tells another person highly personal or private information about himself that the other would have no idea of finding out elsewhere (Galvin, Braithwaite, & Bylund, 2008). In a scene where Leigh Anne went to go have lunch with her sister and a friend, and they asked her, jokingly, if she was kidding about the adoption.Īnother scene where Christmas was coming around and the Tuohy family is taking Christmas photos and they decided to incorporate Michael in the photo, since he is basically family. The intimacy the family had with their immediate family after the adoption of Michael, changed the way they thought their family was. Starting with intimacy, it is related with family themes, images, boundaries, and biosocial issues. Intimacy, self-disclosure, and commitment are three concepts that describe the family as a system. Racism started to come out to the family, but the Tuohy family didn’t care what anyone said because as they are a Christian home, were happy to have Michael Oher in their lives. (Jae Head) and Collins Tuohy (Lily Collins) thought it was funny to have a big black guy in a white family and were skeptical about the decision they had made.

Some family members and friends of Sean Tuohy Jr. The Tuohy family gave Michael Oher another chance at life when he had nothing and believed in him when nobody else did.Įven though, Leigh Anne was the main one who decided to adopt Michael into the family, the family communicated about the adoption. His adopted family helped him get through school and obtain a career. Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) and Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw) adopted Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) into their lives and legally into their family. He had no mom to go to after his father passed away. “The Blind Side” is based on a true story of a famous football player, Michael Oher, who lived a rough, homeless life without anybody to go to.

#The blind side professional#