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Maryanne is born
Maryanne is born to Michael and Maureen Morninglory. Maryanne is loved and adored by her parents and is the first born of three siblings; Mitchell, Margaret and Montgomery. In Erikson's timeline In the first stage of life, the developmental challenge is trust versus mistrust. If the infant is loved and cared for, a sense of basic trust develops that the world is a good place and need not be feared. -
Maryanne starts high school
Maryanne has a difficult time when she first goes to high school but she becomes more comfortable as she begins to make new friends. Eventually she joins the swim team and finds out she loves art class. The fifth stage is adolescence, with the crisis of identity versus identity confusion. Adolescents must develop an awareness of who they are, what their capacities are, and what their place is within their culture. -
Maryanne becomes engaged
After a year and half of dating, Maryanne's boyfriend, Max, asks Maryanne to marry him. She says yes. The sixth stage, intimacy versus isolation, takes place in early adulthood. In this stage, the challenge for young adults is to risk their newly formed identity by entering a committed intimate relationship, usually marriage. Those who are unable or unwilling to make themselves vulnerable end up isolated, without an intimate relationship.
