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    %INTIMATE JUSTICE POWER RELATION MUTUAL BALANCE 881229

     It  is  difficult for justice to prevail in  intimate
relationships between people of widely differing power.

     Meaningful   intimate  relationships  entail   mutual
vulnerability  and  mutual contributions;     but  balance
with   respect   to  vulnerability  and  contributions  is
difficult   to  maintain  when  participants  are   widely
different in power.

     Various   kinds  of  imbalance  regarding  power  can
initiate  difficulty in intimate relationships:   physical
power  to   dominate,     financial  power   to   provide,
intellectual  power  to overwhelm,    perceptual  power to
penetrate,     sexual  power  to  seduce,    physiological
vitality,   etc.    An imbalance in most any form of power
can  occasion difficulties in an intimate relationship  in
the absence of compensatory factors.

     Justice may prevail in intimate relationships in  the
absence    of  various  kinds of balance  in  power,    if
the  participants  and  their  community  are   profoundly
dedicated  to    both  personal  and  communal   integrity
as   being essential to personal  fulfillment.     In  the
context of such    commitments   the   available    powers
can     be cooperatively  directed to sustain personal and
communal  integrity.     In the absence of such a  context
individuals  need  to be careful not to try to  accomplish
that which  is beyond their power.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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