This is http://www.essayz.com/a9809302.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.} ========================================================== %KINDS RELATIONSHIPS WORDS LANGUAGE REFLEXIVE SELF+980930 %OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE PARTICIPANT INDIVIDUALS EVIL 980930 There are many kinds of relationships and many ways to point to those kinds of relationships; e.g., through the use of individual words and groups of words, through body-language, eye-language, gestures, etc. There are objective kinds of relationships, subjective kinds of relationships, reflexive kinds of relationships, etc. There are relationships between: Persons & themselves, solo reflexive relationships, Persons and their families, tribes, neighbors, etc., Persons and their friends, lovers, intimates, etc., Persons and their adversaries, critics, enemies, Persons and their defendants, supporters, etc., Persons and their co-workers, partners, etc. Above where "persons" appear the word "persons" may reasonably taken to refer to individual persons considered one at a time in relationships with other persons considered one at a time --- in relationships which involve just two persons. ALSO Above where "persons" appear the word may reasonably taken to refer to persons considered in concert (two or more at a time) in relationships with other persons considered in concert (one or more at a time) --- in overall relationships which involve at least three persons. In inter-personal relationships the following words may usefully be used to point to particular aspects of relationships and of the participants in relationships. MUTUAL ANTAGONISTIC CONTENTIOUS FRIENDLY INTIMATE ALIENATIVE COERCIVE MANIPULATIVE DISCIPLINED VIOLENT GENTLE LOVING CASUAL INFORMAL FORMAL SPONTANEOUS SYSTEMATIC PLANNED RESPONSIVE SECRETIVE PUBLIC RESPONSIBLE DISINTEGRATIVE FRAGMENTIVE COOPERATIVE COLLABORATIVE ISOLATED RELIABLE TRUSTWORTHY SUSPICIOUS HONEST WHOLESOME COLLUSIVE SUPPORTIVE CODEPENDENT ADDICTIVE INTERDEPENDENT DEPENDENT INDEPENDENT INTEGRATIVE SYNTHETIC ANALYTIC PROPER RESPECTED REBELLIOUS MORAL ETHICAL EVIL RIGHTEOUS SELF-RIGHTEOUS ARROGANT SUPERIOR IMPORTANT BETTER ACCEPTING INFERIOR REJECTION CONTROLS BALANCED UNBALANCED HEALTHY DISEASED RELAXED Relationships may focus upon the qualities of ISOLATED PARTICIPANTS in the relationships --- as individuals without regard for the context of the relationships. Relationships may focus upon the qualities of the RELATIONSHIPS and how they affect the participants in the relationships --- as participants within and beneficiaries and/or victims of the relationships. Often people do not know how to and/or do not seek to point to --- the kinds of relationships within which diverse people become more or less integrated as participant members of their diverse communities. Often people are not familiar with the vocabularies which might be used to point to and/or describe personal relationships; so they do not focus upon relationships as much as upon isolated individuals as alienated creatures who are victimized because of the alienations which they suffer. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================