Relationship or relationships may refer to:
- Interpersonal relationship
- Intimate relationship
- Ethical relationship
- In mathematics and statistics:
- Binary relation
- Causal relationship
- Correlation and dependence
- Direct relationship
- Inverse relationship
- In database design:
- Entity-relationship model
- Relational model
- In media:
- "Relationships", an episode of As Time Goes By
- "Relationship", a song by Lakeside on the album Power
- In psychology:
- Relationship breakup
- Relationship counseling
- Relationship education
- Relationship obsessive–compulsive disorder
Famous quotes containing the word relationship:
“Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers—they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)
“From infancy, a growing girl creates a tapestry of ever-deepening and ever- enlarging relationships, with her self at the center. . . . The feminine personality comes to define itself within relationship and connection, where growth includes greater and greater complexities of interaction.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)