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Bookshelves are crammed with books on, articles abound with advice on how to make
relationships happier and more successful, the internet is teeming with information by
well-intended writers seeking to promote the benefits of relationships in our lives.
Extraordinary relationships are those in which the participants continually grow and contribute to
themselves, the relationship, and each other. Without doubt, our human relationships with
others contribute the majority of happiness and unhappiness we experience in our lives. For
every happy or unhappy experience you will have, there will usually be another person
involved, or the lack of another person or persons in a significant area of your life to influence
the degree of happiness you enjoy.

In this session, we will look at some of the different elements within the relationships we attract,
and some of the considerations that have a positive or negative impact on our happiness.

Human Relationships

By their very nature, relationships are ALL personal, because they involve individual human traits,
strengths, weaknesses, positive attributes and negative flaws. Relationships can be a joy or a
drain, depending on the individuals and their respective personas. There is no absolute
panacea for perfect relationships, no one set of answers to each problem that would result in
perfection. In fact I would go as far as to say that a relationship without challenges, without
imperfections, provides no opportunity for essential human growth. It is a basic law of nature
that says that anything that is no longer growing is dying.