The Four Building Blocks of Relationships

topsynergy · #1 (**permalink**) June 13th, 2007, 09:46 AM

Every successful inter-personal relationship requires one or more building blocks. Top Synergy analyzes their presence and intensity in existing or potential relationships.

The building blocks are also referred to as "qualities", "ingredients", and "energies".

The four building blocks are:

Commitment - The desire and capacity of the individuals to keep and maintain the relationship for the long run;
Intimacy - The emotional closeness and openness in the relationship;
Passion - The romantic and physical attraction between the parties to a relationship;
Synergy - The potential of the relationship to become greater in its constructive and creative powers than the capabilities of the individual participants combined.

Every type of relationships require a different set of building blocks. Here are just a few examples:

Successful marriage requires good measures of commitment, intimacy and passion in the relationship.
Long term friendship also calls for the commitment and intimacy components, but can definitely do without passion.
A strong business partnership may do without intimacy, but must be based on mutual commitment and ample synergic qualities.
A romantic date is considered successful when passion reigns.

Rating Scale:

The Relationships Analyst report rates the presence and intensity of each building block as: Average or Below Average (-), Strong (1), Dominant (2), Powerful (3), Supreme (4), and Divine (5).

It is important to understand that rating the strength of a certain quality as "Average or Below" doesn't mean that this quality isn't there. All it means is that its strength might not be effective at times of crisis and hardship.

Post your questions and comments below.

marina · #2 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2007, 04:17 PM

Thank you very much. Now my reports are easier to understand but I still need to know what "average or below" means. I found that several times and want to know if it is good or bad.

marina · #3 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2007, 04:32 PM

I also do not understand why the presence of strong ingredients in the different departments of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's report (such as commitment, intimacy and passion) produce a fairly low synergy (average or below). Isn't the synergy supposed to be greater when the ingredients are great?

alex1 · #4 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2007, 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marina

Isn't the synergy supposed to be greater when the ingredients are great?

No, as far as I know there isn't a direct connection between synergy and all the others...

topsynergy · #5 (**permalink**) October 31st, 2007, 04:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marina

...I still need to know what "average or below" means. I found that several times and want to know if it is good or bad.

There is nothing wrong with "average or below" score in any category. For example, such score in the commitment department doesn't mean that there's no commitment in this relationship. It means, however, that if there is - it's the end product of choice and resolve, hard work, cultural and educational training, etc.

We like to use swimming as an example. You can swim against the currents; only it is so much harder, requires ongoing training and practice, and quite often depletes your resolve and stamina after a short while.

An above average score usually means that committing to the relationship is a natural state with that person or couple. You may usually find this valuable possession among people that are balanced and harmonized, recognize their self-worth and are not judgmental towards themselves or others. In short - they are committed inwardly (love themselves), and thus can be naturally committed to others.

Make sense?

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