The 6 Levels of Relationship

Posted by Steven Kessler on Feb 25, 2017 in Uncategorized | 4 comments

How do you know when you’re in love? How do you even know when you’re in a “Relationship?” How is a capital R “Relationship” different from all the other “relationships” of life? Let’s start by looking at relationships in general: friends, lovers, acquaintances. If we put these on a spectrum according to the amount of emotional investment in the relationship, we discover that they fall into six fairly discrete groups, the six levels of relationship*. 1. Acquaintanceship Acquaintances are the people that we don’t really know; we just...