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Advices and queries - 25
A long-term relationship brings tensions as well as fulfilment. If your relationship with your partner is under strain, seek help in understanding the other's point of view and in exploring your own feelings, which may be powerful and destructive. Consider the wishes and feelings of any children involved, and remember their enduring need for love and security. Seek God's guidance. If you undergo the distress of separation or divorce, try to maintain some compassionate communication so that arrangements can be made with the minimum of bitterness.
Contents
- Introduction
- Advices 1 to 7
- Advices 8 to 16
- 17 - Do you respect that of God in everyone...
- 18 - How can we make the meeting a community...
- 19 - Rejoice in the presence of children and young people in your meeting...
- 20 - Do you give sufficient time to sharing with others...
- 21 - Do you cherish your friendships...
- 22 - Respect the wide diversity among us in our lives and relationships...
- 23 - Marriage has always been regarded by Friends as a religious commitment...
- 24 - Children and young people need love and stability...
- 26 - Do you recognise the needs and gifts of each member of your family...
- 27 - Live adventurously...
- 28 - Every stage of our lives offers fresh opportunities...
- 29 - Approach old age with courage and hope...
- 30 - Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest...
- Advices 31 to 42
- History
- Duty of reading
