A Brief Introduction

Here's what I think:

Relationships as we know and experience them are in urgent need of re-definition. The models we have inherited - the ones that require us to fit ourselves into them at any cost, even if we metaphorically lose an appendage doing so - are outdated.

Here's what else:

Relationships are one of the most important things in life, but most of us are grandly unsatisfied and without means to do much about it.

You know the statistics: over 50% of marriages end in divorce, partners who love each other cheat, there is major overuse and over-saturation of porn, bringing with it desensitization and lack of real intimacy.

So, what to do about it? 

It starts with fine-tuning the concept of relationships in general:

• Relationships not as a thing of duty, a culturally sanctioned prison or as a confounding maze, but as an outlet, and a source, for creativity

• Relationships as adventure and a really cool way to play the game of life

• Relationships as a vehicle for personal understanding, growth, and transformation

• Relationships as spiritual practice

• Relationships as a means to have two people become more than the sum of their parts

Relationships can be rare, stunning and rewarding when they are consciously created as a dynamic expression of the people in them.

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