Well, can you? ? Can You Relate?

I got to musing about the title of our blog?

One angle goes like this: Can you relate to what we?re writing about? Are you also worried about losing pay when you have to take sick leave? Do you wonder whether your voice is heard by politicians? Or what your kids are up to online? Do you get all fired up about celebrity hook-ups and break-ups?

Alternatively, Can You Relate? asks: Do you see how domestic violence is woven into our culture? Do you see the interconnections and the complexities? And will you help us analyze and untangle all the knotty threads?

But in a third?and equally important sense?Can You Relate? challenges all of us to ask ourselves: How are we at relationships? Are we tending to our friends and loved ones well? Are we nurturing our kiddos along? Are we good lovers? I mean: are we good to our dates, our boyfriends & girlfriends, our partners, our spouses? And do we expect the same of them? Who helps us sort out what?s a blunder and what?s abuse?

Talk to a victim advocate, a police officer, a faith leader, a hairdresser, a coach, and you?ll start to see that we still have a real problem on our hands when it comes to relationships, power, and abuse. Thankfully, there?s been a long standing effort to tear down the old model that sees this stuff as a private matter, and a new model is under construction. Over 1,000 of you will literally run and walk alongside us this Saturday to show your support for healthy relationships and teen dating violence prevention. We are on our way to a better world, and I hope you can relate to my excitement about that!

Source: http://canyourelate.org/2012/07/17/well-can-you/

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