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Volume I, Issue 28: On Relationships!
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In this Issue:
1. Welcome!
2. On Relationships! (Featured Article)
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1) Welcome to this issue of our Lovin’ Life Now! weekly newsletter. A special hello to you if you are receiving this for the first time. Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in it.
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2) On Relationships!
By Charlene M Brown
This word is probably one of the most currently overused in the English language right now.
If capitalized or singled out (“a Relationship”) it implies a romantic partnership. But the word itself doesn’t differentiate what kind of relationship is being talked about.
It might be your relationship to your cat or your car. Or it might be referring to the fifteen year friendship between you and your best friend or even the fifteen year feud between you and your brother. How do we differentiate between all these different kinds of relationships? Certainly not by this one word!
Is the relationship with your auto dealer the same as that of your lover? And even there, “lover” implies a more casual liaison than does “partner” or “mate” or “spouse.”
Personally, I have always found the English language to be lacking in real, meaningful expression. And don’t get me started on the whole world of social media, which has taken words of value and dulled them down to become nearly meaningless. “Friend” is not a word I use lightly. In fact, one of my single biggest hesitations to joining Facebook was that it used the word friend casually, when for me, that is not a casual relationship at all!
So, I’ve always found the English language to be inadequate for expressing feelings and the varying relationships that people have in their lives.
This is not a philosophical discussion on the origin of language (I’ve taken Philosophy and it is obviously useful to agree on a few basic things to use as points of reference), yet even this is somehow lacking.
When I say “sister”, this implies a female blood relation on your same hierarchical level, to your side. But what if you don’t get along too well with your blood-relation, yet your best friend plays the role beautifully. Has the relationship changed? Is your blood-relation no longer your “sister”?
This is what I mean about the language being inadequate in describing the relationships that people actually have with one another.
Is a biological parent who is absent in your life still considered your “mother” or “father”, though someone else actually parented you!?
So we have all these different words for how people are related to us, yet we have only one word to describe all of those: relationship!
I know a woman who hates the word “wife” because she believes it implies subservience to the “husband”, so she uses “spouse” in its place. I also know someone who, in describing her lover, said she had “met her match”, to which her friend replied, “Is this a game that you are on opposite sides of?” And what of the life partners who have been together for 10 years, yet remain unmarried by choice-are they just each other’s “boyfriend” or “girlfriend”? Doesn’t that imply a casualness, a passing through nature that after ten years, probably has more heaviness to it!?
Hmmmm.
So I’m curious to know how you describe the meaningful “relationships” in your life, what do you call them? Do you take traditional names for things and apply them to anyone who fits that description-using “sister” and “brother” for people you have a “sibling-like” relationship to; or “mother” and “father” for those who have helped to parent you? Or what about “friends” who you’ve made a commitment to? What do you say, how do you introduce them at a gathering or party?
Maybe you make up your own language and use words that fit what you are to each other, though they are not traditionally used in that way. Your “web”, for instance, to describe the interconnectedness of the various people in your life.
Really, I’m very interested in knowing what and how you define and describe your co-existence to the people who are important to you and who make up the important/different facets of your life.
Please share either by posting a comment on the site, or by sliding me an email at charli@youcanloveyourlifenow.com.
I know this was kinda deep this week, so that means I am sending you an extra special BIG HUG today!
~Charli B.
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