Since no one has reponded to my first posting here some 4 months ago in the "relationships all over" sub-section of "The Lounge", I might add a posting myself on the topic of relationships. Issues related to relationships we will all have with us always, even unto the end of our days.
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Whatever sense of fancifulness, what some call conceit or pleasure, whatever empathetic responsiveness and emotional relatedness I exhibit or achieve, and I have done in my relationships as a teacher, a parent, a member of a community, et cetera, I do not find I do so to anything like the same extent all the time. This is of course true of all of us. For there is, as I have said many times in the text of my writings, fragmentation, diversity and conflict, incompleteness and dissatisfaction. These abstract words have very concrete meanings in reality and they exist in our walks, our journeys in life. I have had a sense of wholeness in much of life's personal journey, but this is not always the case in relationships, in all the journey. You can't have it all. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You wins some and you loses some.-Ron[8D]

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married for 41 years, teacher for 35 years and a Baha'i for 49 years.