This is http://www.essayz.com/b0707254.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.} ========================================================== %GUIDE EVOLVING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP MUTUAL BALANCE 070725 %DIRECT NET NATURES PARTICIPANTS RESPONSE NEGATIVE 070725 %BLAME SHAME GUILT PUNISH THREAT ATTACK SCORE KEEP 070725 %ATTACK DEFEND FORTRESS FORTIFY INSECURE DEFENSES 070725 %OPEN HONEST LISTENING DIALOGUE DIPLOMATIC TALK SIN 070725 %SUPERIOR EXCLUSIVITY ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT ALIEN 070725 Relationships evolve in ways that are directed by the Net- Nature of all of the Participants'-Responses-to-Each- Other: Negative-or-Affirmative. For Relationships to evolve in Affirmative-Ways; the Net- Affirmative-Responses of some must compensate for the Net- Negative-Responses of others. Responses which include: Blaming, Shaming, Guilt- Generation, Punishments, Threats, Attacks, Score-Keeping, Denigrations, Domination, etc. --- will thereby be moved towards Net-Negative-Responses. Responses which include: Openness, Honesty, Forgiveness, Hospitality, Civility, Generosity, Mutuality, Balance, Creativity, Imagination, --- will thereby be moved toward Net-Affirmative-Responses. Healthy-Relationships evolve Creatively through Authentic- Cooperative-Behaviors on the part of participants. Un-Healthy-Relationships evolve Destructively through the Re-Cycling of: Violence, Alienation, Domination, Greed, Dishonesty, Suspicions, Self-Righteousness, Arrogance, Hubris, Attacks, Rejections, Exclusivity, and related other Vices. 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) ==========================================================