November's focus is on meaningful interpersonal relationships. I have always found this to be a very ambiguos topic until I read Steve Duck's book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating in my high school psychology class. I found an abstract of this work online which I will post below. Take time this month to dig below the surface; you never know what you will discover! Not only about yourself, but others lives as well.
"Meaningful Relationships" challenges the reader to step off traditional academic pathways in the pursuit of understanding the nature of human relationships. The author, Steve Duck, argues that relationships are never "done deals" but, rather, are continually unfolding and in need of perpetual responsive action and construction. Central to this discussion is the author's contention that relationships are solidly based in the recognition of shared meaning discovered in the way we metaphorically represent the world to ourselves and to others through everyday talk and symbols. Theories presented in [this book] do not unfold in a sequential manner but rather are approached from different angles showing simultaneous relationships in different contexts.
