Healthy Relationships

What makes a relationship healthy?
A healthy relationship is one that makes you feel safe, secure, trusted, and respected. You and your partner are respectful of each other’s opinions, without feeling the need to sacrifice your own opinions. You are able to disagree without yelling, swearing, or shoving one another. You can communicate openly and feel safe enough to be honest about how you feel with your partner. The two of you also respect each other’s time and space, and understand that you don’t have to do everything together all the time. You can trust that what your partner says to you is true and that he or she would not pressure you to do anything you don’t want to do. Healthy relationships are balanced and each partner contributes and gains an equal amount. A healthy relationship can include many things; here are just a few additional traits to a healthy relationship:

• Both people in the relationship trust each other

• You can be yourself

• Talk openly with each other

• Agree to disagree at times

• Respect each other’s opinion, values, and feelings

• Support each other in your goals

• You don’t spend all your time together

• Enjoy your own activities