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Relationship:
Interpersonal relationships are social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people. They vary in differing levels of intimacy and sharing, implying the discovery or establishment of common ground, and may be centered around something(s) shared in common.
Types of interpersonal relationships:
* Kinship relationships, including family relationships, being related to someone else by blood (consanguinity), e.g. fatherhood, motherhood; or through marriage (affinity), e.g. father-in-law, mother-in-law, uncle by marriage, aunt by marriage.
* Formalized intimate relationships or long term relationships through law and public ceremony, e.g. marriage and civil union.
* Non-formalized intimate relationships or long term relationships such as loving relationships or romantic relationships with or without living together; the other person is often called lover, boyfriend or girlfriend (not to be confused with just a male or female friend), or significant other. If the partners live together, the relationship may be similar to marriage, and the other person may be called husband or wife. Over a certain length of time they are so regarded by common law. Mistress is a somewhat old fashioned term for a female lover of a man who is married to another woman, or of an unmarried man. She may even be an official mistress (in French maîtresse en titre); an example is Madame de Pompadour. ( I had to giggle on this one)
* Soulmates, individuals who are intimately drawn to one another through a favorable meeting of the minds and who find mutual acceptance and understanding with one another. Soulmates may feel themselves bonded together for a lifetime; and, hence, they may be sexual partners but not necessarily.
* Casual relationships, relationships extending beyond one night stands that exclusively consist of sexual behavior, the participants of which may be known as friends with benefits when limited to considering sexual intercourse or sexual partners in a wider sense.
* Platonic love is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise.
Friendship, which consists of mutual love, trust, respect, and unconditional acceptance, and usually implies the discovery or establishment of common ground between the individuals involved; see also internet friendship and pen pal.
* Brotherhood and sisterhood, individuals united in a common cause or having a common interest, which may involve formal membership in a club, organization, association, society, lodge, sorority, fraternity. This type of interpersonal relationship also includes the comradeship of fellow soldiers in peace or war.
* Partners or coworkers in a profession, business, or a common workplace.
* Acquaintanceship, simply being introduced to someone or knowing who they are by interaction.
(sorry to steal a post style from Chaingang but I needed to frame My comments): My assumption here is that we are discussing a good relationship---for there are bad relationships that have those 4 pillars as direct opposites, or some malformed construct of these pillars and some deviance or variance---hmm but wait, don't we have that in most relationships? Or are they all pure?
Sorry---that's for another thread--
What we need to realize, or ponder are the 4 basic precepts inherent n a relationship---be they pure or not so pure---IMHO
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----attraction is a physcial manifestation
----love is an emotional manifestation
So I am eliminating those as "pillars"--I might find someone repulsive to look at but I may still have a relationship with them. I may detest someone as well, but still have a relationship with them.
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---relationship may be as simple as the person who checks you out in the grocery or as veronica says---lovey dovey (smiles)
The question is: do these 4 pillars exist in a relationship? Can a relationship be established to some degree with out these pillars--be they positive or negative?
I am not sure Chaingang if they are "cornerstones" unless you are referring to what is established as the relationship evolves. I go back to the example of the checkout person----there is some minor communication--but does he or do you respect, trust and show honesty? Hmm maybe, maybe not---but as the relationship develops, these other elements may begin to drop into place--hence the thought of ascension---but they may never drop into place either--does a relationship then not exist?
so are they present to some degree in every relationship--even to the negative deviation? I would say it depends upon what you define as a relationship----if you use the pure definition quoted above--I would say---no. Now the question arises---well what is present? I am going to say communication--for without that in its simplest forms, one does not have the first level of ascension---if this cornerstone is good or bad determines whether there is any further ascension--and at any point along the way the relationship can fall off---
But if you use relationship to mean an "evolved set of mutual interactions resulting in some form of bond between 2 or more people over a period of time with a deepening intimacy to the bond"--then I would say---- yes they CAN exist---but there is also a good chance that they fell off the tower and they do not exist as well
< Message edited by MHOO314 -- 1/29/2006 6:33:52 AM >
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