System Dynamics
Love Lingers Here: Intimate Enduring Relationships–VII. The Marker Event: Establishing a Commitment as a Couple
The defining moment in the life of a couple is critical as a way of defining an orienting difference.
Love Lingers Here: Intimate Enduring Relationships–Essay IV: The New Self and Founding Story
The first myth that we are likely to embrace when we are looking for and establishing an intimate relationship concerns the sense of a “new self”.
Living in the Garden: What Went Wrong and What Next?
The first couple’s first meeting was so beautiful and so romantic! With such a start, what can possibly go wrong? …
Love Lingers Here: Intimate Enduring Relationships — Essay II: The Couple as a Third Entity
I base my analysis of enduring relationships on a fundamental assumption: a couple is a living, dynamic entity that is something more than just two people living together.
Love Lingers Here: Intimate Enduring Relationships– Essay III: The Stories We Are Told
We must look at the history of relationships in our contemporary societies and, more specifically, on the dominant personal and collective myths we cling to about intimacy and enduring relationships.