2. Relating
is based on the premise that
personal relationships are indeterminate
processes of ongoing flux.
3. Relational Dialectics
“Social
life is a dynamic knot of
contradictions, a ceaseless interplay
between contrary or opposing
tendencies”
4. Contradiction
Refers to the “dynamic interplay between
unified oppositions”
“Formed whenever 2 tendencies or forces
are interdependent yet mutually negate
one another”
“bonding occurs in both interdependence
with the other and independence from the
other” One without the other diminishes the
relationship