Your brains come pre-wired with a
hunger to connect and couple
as well as a spiritual hunger!

Your groups (family, friends, fraternities) provide the major wants of love, identity, recognition, status, association and resources. In western society, group union is the prevailing way of overcoming separateness where the aim is to belong to the herd and to a large extent, by conforming self disappears! Union by conformity is insufficient to pacify separateness anxiety as it is mind not body but herd belonging is permanent not spasmodic.

Affiliation bring BIG affirmation!

Isolation beget separation begets indifference whilst intuitive connectedness beget concern maybe compassion! Belonging comes from an inner belief and voice that says "I belong in this life and have place, purpose and meaning." Mature pair bonded loving partners see themselves as unique and different from each other, they know that their closeness allows for individual differences. The relationship coexists , complements and completes with individual freedom where giving is spontaneous with emotional and spiritual bonding. Commitment is characterized by a desire not only to give to the other but to serve the other without expecting anything in return and a recognition that allows for faults, failures and disappointments. There is equality and power plays diminish as the three dimensions of the relationship peacefully coexist in harmony, "I" , "YOU" and "US".

If you get a chance, seize it with both hands.

Everyone's need constantly change and as current needs are satisfied
new ones emerge and satisfying these new needs drive and dominate us!

Self-actualization
Other and Self-Esteem
Loved Lover and Belonging
Safety Sustenance Security Sex

point + profound
purpose + path + pulse
propagate + pack + position
pleasure + prosper + place
preservation + protect + provide + please

You are best positioned to enjoy leisure when you are self-actualized!