I am very aware that people don’t analyze their connections in the manner I’ve described below. We’d have healthier communities and families if we did!

• Will you search with me when I am searching, stand with me when I am standing, and drop to your knees with me in prayer if and when I need it? I will try to do the same for you.
• Will you stand up to me with firmness and kindness when my many blind spots are blocking my thinking? I will try to do the same for you.
• Will you join me and examine our connection (as casual acquaintances, colleagues, neighbors, partners, or spouses) so that we remain mutual and equal and respectful no matter the degree or significance of our connection?
• Will you take time to listen to me? I will try to take time to listen to you?
• Will you allow me my quirks and eccentricities and try to regard them as interesting rather than regard them as things you wish were different about me?
• Will you seek my highest good as far as you are able given the knowledge we have about each other? I will try to do the same for you.
• Will you try to be as unafraid of me as I try to be unafraid of you?

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