Table of Contents

Are Relationships in Trouble Today

Good People Make Good Relationship

Is Virtue Boring or Bad

Why We Fail to Be Good

Anxiety, Calmness, and Being a Self

Self-Knowledge and Character in Relationships

Being Responsible for Self

Having a Goal Focus for Self

Feeling and Thinking

Character and Principles

Critical Principles in Relationships

Bringing It All Together

A Final Example from Jane Austen

About the Author

Ronald W. Richardson is former Clinical Director of the North Shore Counseling Center, pastoral counselor, author of many books on family systems theory and is currently a retired pastor living in West Vancouver, BC, Canada.