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   %IMBALANCE POWER INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP SEX GAMES 910502

     Any kind  of  imbalance of power leads  to  it  being
difficult  to  maintain healthy  personal,   intimate  and
sexual  relationships;   because:  honesty is  undermined,
games  are  played,   true intimacy is undermined  and  we
slide  into  manipulations    of   addiction/codependence,
collusions, violence, and child abuse.

     In the  presence  of  unchecked  imbalance  of power;
unhealthy     relationships    may     include  incestuous
relationships  (active/passive),    male domination,   and
dysfunctional relationships between:

    professional/client        pastor/parishioner
    teacher/student            supervisor/worker
    boss/secretary religious   leader/follower

    political leader/worker    mentor/mentee.

     One form of coercion exercised due to an imbalance of
power   of  one  form,  is likely to  elicit  coercion  of
another form which may be exercised because of a different
kind   of   unbalanced   power.     Manipulation   elicits
manipulation.

     The greater  is  a  power disparity  in  an  intimate
relationship  the  less  likely it is  that  the  intimate
relationships can be a healthy relationship.

     Is the solution (to an imbalance in power)  for those
people who have superior power to punish those people  who
have  less  power  and  so find  themselves  in  unhealthy
intimate relationships?   No,  because the solution is but
an extension of the problem it pretends to solve.

     It will  be  helpful  to  encourage  all  people   to
recognize the risks of initiating and maintaining intimate
relationship  in  which  there  is  a  continuing  serious
imbalance of power.

     It will be helpful to offer understanding support  to
those  people who are suffer within intimate relationships
which  are unhealthy because if an inadequate  balance  of
power;   and  to help everybody learn  from  each  other's
failures  to sustain healthy relationships in the  absence
of an appropriate balance of power.

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