Relational Loop Theory and Causal Mediation Principle

Why They Need Each Other to Make Sense

Relational Loop Theory and the Causal Mediation Principle is a structural framework for understanding why effort, care, and good intentions so often fail to produce change inside relationships, systems, and everyday life.

Relational Loop Theory (RLT) explains how cause-and-effect chains become entangled when people interact, and why patterns repeat even when individuals try to behave differently. The Causal Mediation Principle (CMP) explains what happens when those chains are interfered with, compensated for, or carried by someone other than the point of origin. On their own, each model is incomplete. Together, they reveal the mechanics underneath burnout, obligation, over-functioning, and the quiet persistence of unresolved situations.

This book does not offer coping strategies, emotional reassurance, or moral prescriptions. It does not ask readers to fix themselves or others. Instead, it provides a precise orientation to how causal chains actually behave in lived experience, and why clarity, rather than effort, is what allows change to occur.

Written for readers who are tired of narratives that blame feelings, valorize endurance, or promise closure where none is structurally available, this work offers a way to live accurately inside systems without becoming responsible for holding them together.

This is not a guide to better outcomes.
It is a guide to better orientation.

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