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This article provides an exploration of how Martin Buber was influenced by his relationship with his wife, Paula Winkler, particularly in the development of the I-Thou perspective. Stressing non-objectification, the I-Thou perspective applies to Zionism, Jewish–Arab relations, civil rights ideas, and aspects of psychoanalytic theory. Buber’s relationship with Winkler exhibited many parallels to the relational home and contained elements seen in the healing experience portrayed by Stolorow, Atwood, Orange, Brandchaft, and collaborators. Buber, raised in the Orthodox Jewish tradition, was greatly influenced by his relationship with Winkler, a Bavarian Catholic who later converted to Judaism. Buber’s I-Thou ideas share concepts in common with intersubjective systems theory (IST). This article argues for the importance of IST’s approach to expanding reflective awareness and addressing trauma. A psychobiographical analysis shows that Martin Buber developed a sense of being and a genuine feeling from maternal loss at a young age, and grew up with caretaking relationships lacking in attunement to his tragic experiences. The impact of Buber’s healing is evidenced by his change in self-experience, whichledd him to develop a worldview that encourages priorities of humanism and non-aggression.