Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing Axioms -

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

>> 1. Community is created to enhance relationships. This is the point of
>> cohousing. If your development process is damaging your relationship then
>> you are out of balance with your purpose.
> 
> I strongly agree with you, Rob, with one slight amendment.  I think that
> cohousing and community are created to enhance not only relationships (1:1),
> but also a network of relationships and community itself (which is like
> family, as I think of it, and is something greater than relationships.

Something greater than relationships rings bells for me too. I wouldn't move
into cohousing for "just" relationships. I had those before.

I wanted a network of relationships like one has in a family. Where everyone
else was related to each other too. Not a series of one-to-one
relationships.

In complex relationships geographic proximity is integral.  In building a
family and keeping it together, one needs a physical space to do it -- a
house big enough for everyone to be together and to have privacy.

The architectural structure is more important than many would like it to be
but it isn't _uniquely_ important. Every community does not have a unique
architectural structure.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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