This is http://www.essayz.com/b0706230.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.} ========================================================== %ABSENT ABSENCE ADEQUATE RELIABLE INFORMATION SEX 070623 %INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP RELATIONSHIPS OUTSIDE MARRIAGE 070623 %DIFFICULT MAKE JUDGEMENT WHETHER HEALTHY HONORABLE 070623 %INTEGRATIVE WORTHY RESPECT REVERENCE AGES POWERS 070623 %BALANCE MUTUALITY MATURITY OPEN HONEST GRACIOUS 070623 %LEVELS SECURITY EMOTIONAL MEDICAL RISKS COOPERATE 070623 In the absence of adequate and reliable information it is difficult to make an informed judgement about whether or not particular intimate/sexual relationships are healthy, honorable, integrative and/or worthy of respect. The following information may be relevant in making any such judgement about the participants' relationships: 1. Ages. 2. Intellectual, emotional and social majorities. 3. Relative levels of various kinds of security. 4. Readiness and ability to parent children. 5. Knowledge about emotional and medical risks. 6. Ability/Intent to cooperatively manage such risks. 7. How tolerant their communities are of intimacies. 8. How accepting their communities are of intimacies. 9. How supportive their communities are of intimacies. 10. Conceptual, religious and moral contexts entailed. 11. Family and economic contexts entailed. 12. Levels of addictions and codependencies entailed. 13. How many people will be affected by the relationships 14. Levels of commitment to balance and mutuality. 15. Levels of commitment to openness and honesty. 16. Levels of health, disease, injury in participants. 17. Levels of commitment to others not involved. 18. Levels of commitment to others that are involved. 19. How well those involved know each other overall. 20. Collusive games of mutual self deception involved. 21. The influences of Domineering-People around. Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c)\ 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================