Relationships are real in the genuine family. Relationships are authentic only when honest and open sharing takes place. There is an environment for personal honesty and openly facing mistakes and feelings. In the enabling family, true thoughts and feelings are spoken and received in love. At this point, true relationship can begin, free from barriers of mistrust and deception.
Family is about commitment and lifelong meaning.
There is a fidelity and righteousness that is about faithful, open, honest, responsible and caring action in relation to all in the household. Trust, respect, loyalty, flexibility, and love give order and meaning to such a household and all its members. The Common Family True family is not solely flesh and blood. It is not birth and blood lines that make persons family to each other, though birth into a social unit helps make one part of a family. A larger component is the mutual elements of living held in common.