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What It Means To Be On Relationship Level One?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Uncommon Relationships: Experiencing the Seven Levels of Relationships \u2013 Part 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“I am like a foreigner [Relationship Level 1] to them\u2026.” \u2013 bible.com\/bible\/116\/job.19.8,13-15,17.nlt<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

These are the words of Job as he expresses his pain from the loss of all his children, then his possessions, and lastly his health all within a matter of a short period of time. His losses impacted his relationships on every level. This statement in particular represents the impact his losses had on his neighbors, relationship level one. The people he called neighbors are now treating him as a foreigner in the place he’s always lived.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Level one represents the people you know only because of proximity. This relationship group emerges from the environment you\u2019re in. When you change environments, people in this group tend to not go with you and you tend to attract people from within the new environment. They become your neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Thought or Concept:
\n<\/span>“Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.” – bible.com\/bible\/116\/1CO.12.14-19.NLT<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

As a member of society, you become a part of a body or group of people. That group is diverse in many ways. Not to get into that, but the group is only together because of location, be it physical, work related, social in nature (i.e. placed you gather or do business). People within level one are most often taken for granted and even go unnoticed. Allow me to help you identify a few people who you relate to at level one.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In your home, you find neighbors in those who live next door to you or within your neighborhood, it’s those persons you know casually.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In your work, you have people you see each day at your office or place of work that you know causally, but wouldn’t know at all if you’d never worked there or cease to have this as a place of work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In your place of worship, you see familiar faces at each visit that you’ve become accustomed to seeIng and have formed a casual relationship in nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In your social interactions that occur outside of the home, you see people in the community that you know. These are the people you might see regularly at your local Starbucks, public library, or local bookstore.<\/span><\/p>\n

In your level-one relationships you’ll find what we call family friends. These are the people you know because someone close to you knows someone. This might include your children’s friends, your spouse’s friends, or your relatives’ relatives that are not your relatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Practice:
\n<\/span>Now that you have some examples that expose where you’d find your relations at level one, let’s discuss the makeup of this first level in relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Make Up of Relationship Level One<\/b><\/p>\n