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    %CONFESSION RELATIONAL IMPERFECTIONS ALIENATION+970903
  %ESTRANGEMENT DISTRUST DISHONESTY ANGER SUSPICION+970903
    %PRIMARY SECONDARY EQUAL FOOTING REALITIES LOVE+970903
    %NATURE SIN EVIL REDEMPTION RECONCILIATION TALK+970903
  %CONFLICT RESOLUTION PEACE VIOLENCE COERCION FAIL 970903

     Traditionally confessions have to do with individuals
as  individuals  reporting what they as  individuals  have
done  which  should not have been done,  or as not  having
done  what they should have done.   Such confessions  have
traditionally   been   based  upon  the  assumption   that
individuals  as  individuals  are  primary  realities  and
personal  relationships are secondary realities.   Perhaps
individuals  and  personal relationships would  better  be
regarded as realities having equal footing;  neither being
primary or secondary.

     What  if  confessions were to include confessions  of
relational imperfections as well as confessions of our own
individualistic   imperfections?     How  would   tensions
between   privacy  rights  and  confessional   duties   be
resolved?    What if Jill confesses to her involvement  in
an  imperfect  relation with Jack who in his own  mind  is
justified in treating Jill as he does --- and regards Jill
as   violating  his  rights  by  going  public  with   her
dissatisfaction  with him after she promised to honor  and
obey him?  How are the conflicts in such a situation to be
resolved?   What assumptions need to be recognized, named,
described and reconsidered?  By whom?  Under what kinds of
encouragement?
                         (c) 1997 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Integrity and Honesty"
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)

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