Beliefs about relationships

What are your beliefs about relationships in your life? How are you treated, and how should you be treated?

I chose some important relationships to explore here. Each one is a different flavour and with each person I have had different interactions recently and in the past. Each relationship has that history. Each is vibrant and alive...but one is more sober and makes me go inside. 

For each mandala-like shape I wrote to distill the thoughts that arose while I was making the images. With one person I want to be a friend for life. Left bottom corner: "I want to be treated like a friend, and to be friends, until the end". 

Middle bottom; "VIbranNt BriGht, EnErgEtic Love", and another, 

Pink right hand bottom: "heart of gold, hidden in the city, heart of gold, forbidden freedom, heart of gold, free to love". 

Right side top: "Grey penetrating eyes, flash of smile, and knowing glimpse of wisdom far beyond my reach".

Red Centre Top; "Rules all their own, respect or die, tensions within, tensions without, charm unyielding to rules of ordinary folk.

There is no real conclusion to this post. Its an exploration. I think its a bit to personal to go further, but its an example of how to explore visually how one feels in response to the question and what might come up in exploring it. Sometimes I use mandalas consciously and sometimes its just where I start in an image. I find the process of making a circle and adding colours very soothing and descriptive. Try it.