Keeping "child" objects aligned relative to "parent" objects - Possible?

Hello,
I have an object (e.g. a circle) and I have some text that I would like to remain center-aligned horizontally and vertically to the center of the circle, even if I cange the font or size of the text, or add a newline (make it two or three lines of text rather than one).
Right now I have to realign the text to the object each time I change the text. I'd like to be able to "lock" the alignment of the text (or any other object) to some other object. Can I get this result (or close to it) somehow? I have to make frequent changes like this, and the extra realignement step after each change is a productivity killer for me.
Thanks for your wisdom,
Ben

Thanks for the help so far, I appreciate it!
I think I will likley have to go the action or scripting route. Setting an object's origin relative to that of another object seems like what I want to do, but the example I gave was really an oversimplification of my situation, and the text and circle of my example are really more complicated objects and groups of objects (including text) in the actual case, so I don't think the convert to ellipse solution will be quite robust enough. I'm going to fiddle with that method a bit to see if it might be adapted to the general case; it involves a few features I didn't know about so thanks for the education regardless. Otherwise, if there is no general way of linking one object's coordinate system to another object's center, creating an action or script will at least eliminate a few mouse clicks.
Thanks again both of you,
Ben

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