Conflict Resolution of Staying in the Exhausting Life Cycle or Escaping

to keep it and get married. He‟ll want us to stay in Chinatown.” I guess there are worse things than being an incredibly young mother and living with a hunk the rest of your life.” I don‟t want to force him to be with me. I don‟t even know if can make him happy in the long run p. 112. Sharing her problem with Curt and Annette helps Kimberly very much. However, it is not enough unless she tell it also to the most important person in her life who is her mother. Kimberly is waiting for her mother until her mother comes home. She acts as if she is a little daughter to her mother. Before Kimberly can tell her mother about her pregnancy, her mother has already known it from Kimberly‟s big stomach. Kimberly‟s mother has already known that she is pregnant. However, Kimberly cannot tell anything to her mother for the first time. Her mother holds her and her eyes are squeezed tight. Kimberly guesses that her mother‟s head must have been spinning. Finally, her mother asks Kimberly if she has told Matt. However, once again Kimberly cannot tell Matt about her pregnancy p. 113. Kimberly thinks many times before she has enough courage to tell Matt the truth. Actually, she loves Matt but she never imagines that there will be a baby between them. She asks her mother what she should do. Her mother tells her that sometimes life does not give her what she wants. Therefore, she has to accept the reality that is different from the one she imagines for herself p. 113. After Kimberly asks for suggestions from Curt, Annette, and her mother she decides to keep her baby and to be a young mother. However, she does not tell Matt about her baby for tweleve years. Kimberly decides to be a single parent for her baby. Kimberly‟s baby is a boy. His name is Jason. As I approached the entrance, my tweleve-year-old boy hurtled out the door, hid gym bag in tow. “Hey, where are you going?” I asked in Chinese. “I‟ve got basketball practice Mom. I‟m going to be late.” His Chinese, although not quite as perfect as his English, was excellent. Jason‟s face was so similiar to his father‟s, Matt would have recognized him in a moment had he seen that photo in my office: the golden eyes, the bushy eyebrows, even the lock of hair that always fell in his face p. 118. From the situations above, Kimberly solves her intrapersonal conflict by using mediation by Isenhart and Spagle 2000. Kimberly engages Curt, Annette, and her mother as the third person. Curt, An nette, and Kimberly‟s mother are good mediators. Kimberly regards them as the safe place to share everything. They listen to her story and they do not blame Kimberly for her mistake. They help Kimberly to see objectively and give her greater responsibility to decide the solution. Finally Kimberly decides to face the fact that she will be a mother.