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The Relationship & Families ByDesign Newsletter

December 2009 Trust in Relationships

November 2009 Being Attracted to Someone...Else

September 2009 Closing the Back Door

July 2009 Individuality and Relationship

April 25, 2009 Changing Your Relationship

April 5, 2009 The first of our bi-monthly newsletters, with a featured article by participants Carol Herndon and Paul Bennett.

March 2009 Can we "Produce the Result" in our relationships?

February 2009 What's your story about your relationship or family?

January 2009 A new administration in Washington, a new era of relationship in the world.

August 2008 Are you "accumulating" resentments with your partner?

June 2008 It's all about you!

Articles by Lon and Sandy Golnick

Relatedness Experienced
If relationship is the basic unit of existence in the world, then when we experience being in relationship, we experience being free, at ease, and fulfilled.

Security in Relationship and Family
Do you spend time wishing for security and certainty in your life? We explore these issues as they pertain to both relationships and parenthood.

Happily Ever After ... What?
That's the title of the book we are writing. Here's cartoonist Wiley Miller's take on it.

The Purpose of Relationship
Around what would we design a purpose for our relationships and family?

Games Worth Playing
People play games with each other all the time. Games like "here you go again" and "you always" or "you never". What if you designed a new game?

Living Consistently with your Values
Have you fallen into a kind of automatic way of being in your family and in your relationships? Is it consistent with your values?

Is consideration a lost art? It seems that a growing focus on one's own individual desires and wants is leading people, especially young people, to be inconsiderate of others in their everyday actions.

Building Fences
Sometimes, in an attempt to avoid something 'bad' happening in a relationship, we either don't tell or lie about something that happened. When we do that, we have inadvertantly built a fence between ourselves and those we love.

Make the Season Bright
Watch out for these common pitfalls of the holiday season!