Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Healthy Relationships

So what is a healthy relationship? 

The following is a list of characteristics that can be found healthy relationships

Mutual Respect: This means each person understands the other person’s boundaries and values as they are.
Trust: Being able to give each other the benefit of the doubt. 
Honesty: Having the ability to be honest with your partner is important. 
Compromise: This means giving and taking.  Compromising means accepting and respecting the other person’s opinion. 
Individuality: This means being able to be who you are even when you are in a relationship with someone else.
Good Communication: Being able to express how you are feeling openly and honestly without fear of being hurt. 
Problem Solving: Exercising problem solving requires both people in the relationship to identify what the problems are and to be able to work together to resolve those problems. 
Fighting Fair: Even couples in healthy relationships fight.  Some of things to keep in mind when “fighting fair” are to avoid insulting one another and focus on the issue at hand.  Remember you don’t want to say something you might regret later. 
Understanding: Sometimes in order to understand what someone else is feeling you have to put yourself in their shoes.  You might change how you communicate with people.
Self-Confidence:  This can show people that you can be calm and comfortable when encouraging them to express their own opinions and not fear how you will respond.  By having self confidence you are able to exhibit good communication skills clearly. 
Being a Role Model: Show others what a healthy relationship is, your friends may then start to model after you.  One of the most important things to model is respect; you have to give it to get it! 
"What's a Healthy Relationship." Choose Respect. Apr2008. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health and Human Services. 07Mar 2008 <www.chooserespect.org>.

2 comments:

  1. I'm glad you have found this useful. If there is any specific topics you would like to know more about, please let me know!

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