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THE QUESTION

How am I relating to another Human?

Another Human is another center of experience. They think, feel, interpret, remember, want, expect, choose, and experience the relationship from a position I cannot fully occupy.

A QUESTION TO HOLD

When two Humans say they are in the same relationship, how much of the relationship are they actually experiencing in common?

BEGIN WHERE SOMETHING GETS YOUR ATTENTION.

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BEGIN HERE

What do I expect from you?

  • What do I believe a person in your position is supposed to provide?
  • Where did I learn that expectation?
  • Have I communicated it?
  • Do you know I have it?
  • Did you agree to it?
  • Am I treating preference as obligation, convention as agreement, or history as a promise about the future?

What do I believe you expect from me?

  • Did you tell me?
  • Did I infer it?
  • Am I responding to your actual expectation - or to the expectation I imagine you have?
  • How much of my behavior is based on what you have actually asked of me?

TENSION

What happens when I believe another Human owes me something they never agreed to provide?

WHAT ARE YOU NOTICING?

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AUTHORITY

What authority do I give another Human?

  • My interpretation of events?
  • My value?
  • My identity?
  • My emotions?
  • My choices?
  • What is acceptable for me?
  • What I am allowed to want?

Why does who says something change what I allow it to mean about me?

RESPONSE / SELF

What do I use another Human's response to tell me about myself?

  • likes me
  • dislikes me
  • chooses me
  • rejects me
  • trusts me
  • doubts me
  • praises me
  • criticizes me
  • includes me
  • excludes me
  • notices me
  • ignores me

When does another Human's experience of me become evidence in my experience of myself?

Can I receive information from another Human without turning it into identity?

QUESTION / RESPONSE / WHAT I'M NOTICING

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LET THE QUESTION MOVE

How am I participating in the relationship?

  • What do I bring into this relationship?
  • What do I reinforce?
  • What do I overlook?
  • What do I request - or fail to request?
  • What do I communicate?
  • What do I expect the other Human to somehow know?

What happens when I change my participation but expect the relationship to remain unchanged?

WHERE ELSE IS THIS QUESTION SHOWING UP?

SELF

How does my relationship with myself affect what I expect from another Human?

PURPOSE

What happens when my Purpose asks something another Human does not want from our relationship?

SYSTEMS

When is the Human acting as themselves - and when as an agent of a System?

SOCIETY

How much of what we expect from each other is socially inherited?

BRING THE QUESTION BACK

  • What authority do I give your response to me?
  • Am I relating to you - or to my understanding of you?
  • What happens when our versions of the relationship are not the same?

What does this relationship reveal about how I relate?

What does this reveal about Being Human?

Answers can come from anywhere. Questioning remains yours.

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