Questions on the nature of relationships, power, & politics

I’ve been pondering a few very basic ideas and I’d love to tap the insight and perspectives of my virtual circle. So if you’re interested, I invite you to join me on a thought experiment. 1) I started with the idea that relationships + power = politics. 2) But is that a false division? Certainly a loaded one. My next step was positing whether I could therefore argue that relationships and politics are essentially the same thing. Put another way, are all relationships political because there is always an element of power? Put yet another way, do our idealized “pure” relationships absent of politics exist only in as much as the power differential is minimal or minimized? 3) Does it then follow that the concept of privilege could be philosophically distilled down to the idea that any time you are unaware of the power element in your relationships, you are enjoying a state of privilege? And 4) like almost everything, can that “neutral” idea or concept of privilege have both “good” and “bad” ramifications? The “privilege” of being unaware of a power differential in a marriage, for example, is arguably the goal or end state of a truly “equal” marital relationship. But the “privilege” of being unaware of a power differential in your marriage also potentially makes you blind to the fact that not everyone enjoys that privilege within that institution. And finally 5) is it reasonable to say that words like “society” and “community” are just words that mean “multiple relationships supported by additional social structures”? If so, how do the earlier ideas, if arguably valid, extend or change going from micro to macro? And in particular is this where discussions breakdown between anecdotal individual evidence and definable social trends and patterns? Aaaaand discuss...