Cohousing-L Mailing List: Common meals frequency and social fabric

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

I am curious as to peoples own experiences with the frequency of meals and
the social fabric of the community. There is a thesis  in some of the
postings about community meals that if you don't have several each week your
communinity connections will be weak, and you will in the worse cases
dissolve as a community.

This is not my personal observation, in fact it runs counter to what I have
seen. Yes, meals are important, but whether  you have one a week or 5  does
not seem to make much difference to how close a community feeling is. But
then again, my observation is based on a couple dozen cohousing groups and
not very scientific.

So I guess here is what I am interested in. If you once did more meals
together than you do now, do you feel that the community connections are
noticeably different?

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood, where some weeks we have 5 meals, some weeks we have 1

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