Relationships

Introduction

Common roles and assumptions tend to appear within defined relationships.

They carry expectations about how each person 'should' be, how they 'should' act, and what the interaction is 'meant' to look like. These patterns can quietly shape behaviour before what is happening is seen.

On the surface, what can be seen is the quality of relating itself - how life is being met in this moment, whether through a sense of separateness or connectedness.

On a deeper level, what can be seen beneath all roles, thoughts, actions, and beliefs, is something shared and already present - life, beingness, existence itself.

Explored in the following sections are common 'relationships' - the way two people often relate to one another when the interaction is shaped by how it is defined in the mind. Also explored is how a person seeing through such definitions, roles, and expectations may respond within specific scenarios, meeting what is here rather than what the relationship is thought to be.