We Are Always Confronted With Choice.

The Question Of Identity Has Separated From The Issue Of 'assimilation', Having Lost Much Of Its Drama And Become, So To Speak, A Secular Problem.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.

When People Think, Rightly Or Wrongly, That Marriage Is Forever, They Are Stimulated To Seek And Find A Resolution, A Modus Vivendi, Whenever They Quarrel.

In A World Of Global Dependencies With No Corresponding Global Polity And Few Tools Of Global Justice, The Rich Of The World Are Free To Pursue Their Own Interests While Paying No Attention To The Rest.

Human Attention Tends To Be Focused On The Satisfactions Relationships Are Hoped To Bring, Precisely Because Somehow They Have Not Been Truly Satisfactory. And If They Do Satisfy, The Price Of This Satisfaction Has Often Been Found To Be Unacceptable.