The present includes a case study of a family mediation process with a separated couple in a Judiciary Consultant service of the Rosario University at Bogotá, Colombia. Its purpose was to determine the notion that the couple had of what a bond meant to them, and to examine, if because of the type of communication dialogues developed in the mediation process, this conception was transformed based on Jurgen Habermas Action Communication Theory and the Symbolic Relationship Model of Mediation (MRS) developed by the School of Family Studies of the Universitá Cattolica del Sacre Cuore di Milano. The core of the conflict mediation process is centered upon the comprehension of bonding in a couple, family or community members, as well as the symbolic meaning and the way they act upon a notion of what their bond means. It includes two axes: the affective or emotional, and the ethical regulation. The first based on Erik Erikson´s concepts of basic trust and hope is a basis for human relationships and primary bonding. The ethical axis, with the concepts of justice and loyalty act as regulators of the relationship including the exchange between what is given and received (generativity). The structure of the bonding between a couple, together with the basic gender differences between being a man or a woman, and the task of providing for the generations within the conscience of nurturing, is basic to guarantee the maintenance of the parental task for their offspring after the rupture of the marriage bonding.
