Travers was a woman who never married, wore trousers when she felt like it, had a transformative and emotionally charged relationship with an older married man, and entered into a long-term live-in relationship with another woman.
If you are old enough to be interested in relationships with another person, try to be chaste in how you interact with them.
Being in relationship with one another changes what we assume of one another – within a group, between groups.
As God created a companion for the first human, so we, too, are created to be in relationship with one another.
We need to be in relationship with one another without consensus of opinion.
What is the way forward to honor our histories, past and present, in relationship with one another?
Of course, a positive no is more complex than simply focusing on yes, because we all are in relationship with one another.
We humans are made to be in relationship with one another -- we are infinitely curious and interested in what our neighbors, colleagues, leaders and fellow commuters are eating, reading, saying and wearing.
What an excellent reminder this was, of the importance of being kind and compassionate because we never know what the future holds for us, as individuals, and in relationship with one another.
While this written agreement may serve a purpose in outlining some basic transactional parameters, it doesn't necessarily help people to live authentically in relationship with one another, because, as we all know, the realities of life seldom conform to the expectations we'd put down on paper.
