Relationships
last authored: Sept 2009, Dave LaPierre
Introduction
Social health is tightly linked with a person's identity in the context of community. We all need to have people who we trust and with whom we feel we belong.
We need to enhance human relationships.
We need to shift relationships on our quest to become fundamentally human.
Social health also affected by mental health.
We can have relationships with objects, ideas, or perceptions.
Interactions tend to be between us and someone else, though they can be self-self, self-tv, etc
aka strokes
We can have positive children responding to positive parents, or we can have negative parents evoking negative children.
- roles
- good milk
- bad milk
- interactions
- games
We all play roles:
- adult, child, parent
- friend, family, partner
- teacher, student, healer more on roles
Family is one of the cornerstones of society.
The love we receive from our parents is tremendously important.
Trus is key too.
Bad Milk
Bad milk is anger and judgement, coming from a hurt person who plays games.
Interactions
These are the transactions from TA.
The goal is intimacy and unconditional love: God, self, lovers, family, friends
Respond from our roles:
- parent child
- adult adult
- child child
some can be hurtful
to get out of a damaging role, get people to switch to a different role
Games
Games are
intimacy = into me you see
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