Traditionally we view relations as constituted by two or more individuals. However, this construction gives ontological priority to the individual, while relations become a secondary derivative. In terms of the ideological implications, we are encouraged to give priority to individuals. The result is that many social science theories provide unwitting rationalization for cultural individualism. The present account attempts to develop an alternative account of relation in which relational process is prior to the individual. On this account, the very conception of the individual is a byproduct of collaborative action (co-action). The broad result is a focus on forms of confluence in social life.