Activity 5: Helping Your Relationship Age With Dignity (20 minutes), Workshop 4: Dignity, in the Principled Commitment Program
Materials for Activity
- Optional: Newsprint, easel, and markers
Description of Activity
Introduce the activity with these or similar words:
It's easy to see why we would want to be honored, respected, and treated with dignity. In the early phases of a relationship, partners may put a great deal of emphasis on doing so. But as relationships mature, is it natural for honor and esteem to be replaced by a pattern of taking each other for granted?
Invite participants to give examples of ways partners may come to take each other for granted. As a group, come up with some ideas for reversing those patterns of behavior and encouraging mutual honor and dignity. Record ideas on newsprint, if desired.
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Last updated on Saturday, October 29, 2011.
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