# Social Well-being
Social Well-being is the state of a being's relationships existing well.
## Meaning
Social well-being includes [[Relationship|relationships]] with people and may also include relationship with other living beings, communities, groups, and shared worlds.
Social health asks whether relationships have the capacity to [[Health|function, recover, and grow]].
Social well-being is supported by trust, repair, [[Language Alignment|language alignment]], love, honesty, attention, [[Shared Meaning|shared meaning]], good action, and [[Relational Action|relational action]].
## Source Of Meaning
This note is grounded in the Joe-Codex ontology conversation from 2026-06-19 and Joe's repeated interest in relationship, The Brotherhood, community, and language alignment.
## Relationship Over Time
This note should mature through real relationships, repairs, conversations, shared projects, family, friendship, The Brotherhood, and moments of misunderstanding or alignment.
## Links
- [[Dimensions Of Well-being]]
- [[Well-being]]
- [[Health]]
- [[Relationship]]
- [[Relational Action]]
- [[Shared Meaning]]
- [[Language Alignment]]
- [[Shared Meaning Check]]
- [[Being Well]]
- [[Being Unwell]]
- [[Good]]
- [[Bad]]
- [[Unhealthy]]
- [[Source Of Meaning]]
## Tensions
Social well-being is personal and shared. A relationship can affect Joe's well-being while also having its own shared health that is not owned by Joe alone.
## Question
Are the relationships involved being helped to function, recover, grow, and clarify shared meaning?