The Range of Relationships

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Hi, I'm Julie Tietz, and welcome to Conflict Resolution, Putting the Pieces Together. Today, our topic for discussion is going to be the range of relationships. So why don't we get started off with our key terms? Relationship-- groups of two or more that share a sense of interdependence formed around common goals, values, and shared experiences. Interdependence-- a state in which each member of a relationship is mutually dependent on the others, for example emotionally, economically, ecologically, and/or morally reliant on and responsible to each other.

We have varying degrees of relationships in our life, whether that's with co-workers, or partners, or family, or friends. And we have varying levels of intensity and types of relationships. And regardless of that, we're all interdependent on each of these relationships in some way or another. And again, we have varying levels of relationship. And this could be in intensity, in privilege, obligation, and emotion. So let's go through how we look at these relationships and how they differ from each other in varying degrees and levels.

So let's go to intensity. Your relationship with a romantic partner may be more intense romantically, or probably is more intense very romantically, than your relationship with community groups. The intensity in these two relationships are very different from each other. In the community group, you could be intense, but it's at a different level. Maybe you're really an intense advocate for a certain issue or what that would be. But again, our relationships have different levels of intensity.

This could also be with our obligations. We may feel more obligated to be with our family most of our free time, versus being with our social groups. We have different obligations for each. Maybe our social groups only require us to meet every few months, versus our family where we need that daily contact. And this could also include privilege in our relationships.

And when I'm talking about privilege here, I'm talking about maybe privilege of information. Your family is privileged to a lot of your information about your life, and what your feelings and what your goals are, versus maybe a co-worker. You're not divulging such intimate details about yourself to your co-workers. And this could also include emotions, our emotions with our friendships versus maybe our emotions with our coworkers. We're more emotional, and affectionate, and maybe jovial with our friends, versus our co-workers, where we have more professional emotions that we display towards them.

Let's go over our key points on this tutorial on range of relationships. In our relationships, we are interdependent upon the members that we are in a relationship with, whether that's through emotions, or economically, or maybe through morals, or feeling responsible for each other. And we all have different types of relationships in our lives.

And this could include families, and partners, and friends, and co-workers, and social groups. And each of these relationships have varying senses of intensity, and privilege, and obligation, and emotions that we display. And we display them differently, based on the type of relationship that we have.

Thank you for taking the time out to view this tutorial. I really hope you've learned something. And I can't wait to catch you again next time.