Instead of Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract
INSTEAD OF MARRIAGE:
WRITE YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP CONTRACT
Are you in an on-going interpersonal relationship?
Would your relationship benefit from clarification
of the basic implicit priniples by which it has been operating?
This EXCO seminar will be an opportunity for committed couples, triples, etc.
to discuss 28 open-ended Questions
that should be asked and answered in any on-going relationship.
These 28 basic Questions are embedded in the Internet outline
of the book we will use for this seminar:
Designer Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/RC.html
This link also allows you to read
the beginning of the default Answer to each Question.
If you allow society to answer the Questions for you,
you will have a conventional marriage.
But if you make up your own Answers,
you might create a relationship so different from conventional marriage
that you might decide not to get officially married.
Here is the comprehensive course description:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-RC.html
This outlines the basic areas of discussion for this seminar.
Details about the book are also available,
including a buy-back option for EXCO participants.
When should "Instead of Marriage" meet?
Since "Instead of Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract"
appeared on the EXCO website on March 24, 2010,
each day about 10 people have been looking at the course description.
Perhaps about 1 reader in 100 will click to join this potential seminar.
At this rate, Fall 2010 would be the earliest it could be offered.
If there is a sudden increase of visitors to the EXCO website,
perhaps due to some new publicity,
then all classes would gain new participants.
Or if some organization with an established group of interested people
were to so-sponsor this seminar, then it could be offered sooner.
Talk first with your love-partner
and then spread the word to other couples, triples, etc.
who are ready to look at the practical dimensions of having on-going relatioships.
If you have any questions or suggestions to make this a better seminar,
write to me directly: James Park, e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.
Yours,
James Park, EXCO facilitator for
"Instead of Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract"
