The existential theme of Mitwelt and relationality may guide our reflection to ask how self and others are experienced with respect to the phenomenon that is being studied. To explore relational aspects of a phenomenon is to ask: How are people or things connected? What meaning of community? What ethics of being together? The etymological meaning of relation includes reference to what people return to. Therefore, we speak of family as relations: the intimacies that draw us to return and reunite. How is the self experienced in relation? In what ways is the subject–object relation constituted? Is the other experienced as object or in his or her otherness (alterity)? We may even experience the other in a nonrelational relation such as when the self is erased from the relation in experiences of sacrifice, total dedication, or service.