Relationships … accepted, safe and significant

When it comes to this month’s lifeskills, relationships and core values, look around you. How does your family, community, even systems and institutions support your core values?

As with all families and communities, we share in the challenges of getting along. From conception to our final days, we are all influenced by the many relationships we experience. We all have the same basic human needs – to be accepted, safe, and significant. Relationships that offer these three basic human needs are often hard to come by these days.

Those around us often – by their glances, words and actions – tend not to offer acceptance. There are some relationships that require conformity to their beliefs and behavior in order to feel accepted by them.