Power
Some people use relationships to exercise their ego. Power and control are prominent features at this level. Those who need this kind of experience often seek partners who need security or who desire to be controlled economically, sexually, or socially. A person can use his social status to control a relationship. For example, I know of a very attractive lady who was with a man running for office. She thought he wanted to showcase her. He lost the election and dropped her. She was right.

When two power-driven people form a relationship, their interactions will be animated, but they also will experience a good deal of anger and conflict. Here, what is important is being right and getting your way. And when one of them "wins," which again is all-important, he gets an ego rush. Subtlety is not necessary when asserting this power.

SUBLIME RELATIONSHIPS
Two classes exist in the Sublime category: relationships based on (1) True Love and (2) Transcendent Love. These relationships are communally oriented — they share resources freely. They also are spiritually and socially evolutionary. At this level, love makes you crazy; you can lose your mind in the ecstasy of loving your partner. This love is irresistible and purifying, and it can burn truckloads of karma really fast. Perhaps most importantly, when you experience love, you are happy.  Both of these categories are transcendent in the sense that they operate beyond the strictly biological imperatives of survival, mating, and social posturing.

True Love
True Love has several aspects: mutual respect, acceptance, caring, being determined to know your partner more fully, self-sacrifice, and the desire to improve yourself within the relationship. Let's consider the details of each.

Mutual respect means to honor the human dignity or, at a higher level, the spiritual identity of the other. Here we have transcended the need to manipulate and deride our partner — negative actions found in the Mundane attempts at love.

Acceptance means that we move beyond our habitual judgments and try to determine the Truth of the situation. This can be difficult because Truth comes from our Spirit rather than the relative opinions of our mind or the reactionary responses of our emotions. Once we know the Truth about someone or a situation, acceptance comes easily and we respond accordingly.

Some will argue that Truth (capital "T") does not exist. If God exists, though, surely God must be Truth, and who is to say that we cannot tap into a tiny bit of that?