Fetters4U
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I see a relationship dynamic as being the fluid interplay of personalities, opinions, actions, etc. between any (small?) group that by chance or circumstance are together for a while. Here "relationship" means how the creatures/people get on with each other, and "dynamic", as opposed to static, implies that it changes over time. Obviously, it applies to any couple in any type of relationship, but it could just as easily be applied to a group of office workers, a football team, soldiers in a platoon, or a bunch of survivors in a lifeboat. It probably applies to creatures other than humans too, so one could talk about the relationship dynamic of fish in an aquarium, or wolves in a pack. It is a useful term in the BDSM community since it encompasses non-traditional relationships of two or more people that may or may not be based on friendship, love and/or sex. It probably does not apply to trees in a forest, that interact, but probably do not care about each other in any meaningful sense. It probably does not apply to passengers in a bus, who are probably not together for long enough, although it could come into play if the bus was to break down in a remote area. It probably does not apply to people at a football game, where there are too many people for individual relationships to affect the entire group, although within a small section of season ticket holders, it would certainly apply. Ed
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