This is http://www.essayz.com/a9411241.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %BEST INVITATION OPEN HONEST INTIMACY VULNERABLE+941124 %COERCIVE MANIPULATIVE DECEPTIVE CONTROL ADDICT+941124 %VIOLENT THREATEN REJECT PUNISH REWARD ABUSIVE 941124 At their best true invitations to open and honest intimacy do NOT entail: THREATS COERCION VIOLENCE MANIPULATIONS DECEPTION DISHONESTY CONTROLS ADDICTIONS REJECTIONS PUNISHMENTS REWARDS ABUSE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES PLANS SYSTEMATICS FIXES FIXATIONS COMPULSIONS DICHOTOMIES At their best true invitations to open and honest intimacy DO entail: RISKS LIBERATION GENTLENESS VULNERABILITY TRUST HONESTY RESPECT GROWTH RESPONSES LISTENING AFFECTION FREEDOM SUBTLENESS HINTS RELEASE SUGGESTIONS CREATIVITY HUMOR LAUGHING SPONTANEITY If we do not have clear images of what the best kinds of invitations to open and honest intimacy DO NOT and DO entail, we are likely to accept invitations which are far from the best, as if they were the best possible. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================