READING: PROBLEMS WITH YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?

What made you characterize your partner this way?

There are two kinds of relationships we might form with other people. What are they?

As adults, on what two criteria do we base these types of relationships?

According to the text, are our beliefs of ourselves and others stable or not?

Can you list the criteria upon which we base our beliefs about who we are?

What about our co-workers, bosses, fellow-students and relatives? Is our opinion about them real?

How is our relationship to others transformed if our beliefs of who they are are not fixed?

The text gives a specific example of how we see others in a different light. Can you locate and share it with the class?

What is the advantage of abandoning patterned ways of acting?