Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Healthy vs Unhealthy Relationships

I found this on the following website - http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/youth/health/relationships/healthy.htm

How a Healthy relationship looks compared to an Unhealthy one -

Healthy
Loving and taking care of yourself, before and while in a relationship.
Unhealthy
You care for and focus on another person only and neglect yourself or you focus only on yourself and neglect the other person.

Healthy

Respecting individuality, embracing differences, and allowing each person to "be themselves."
Unhealthy
You feel pressure to change to meet the other person's standards, you are afraid to disagree, and your ideas or criticized. Or, you pressure the other person to meet your standards and criticize his/her ideas.

Healthy
Doing things with friends and family and having activities independent of each other.
Unhealthy
One of you has to justify what you do, where you go, and who you see.

Healthy
Discussing things, allowing for differences of opinion, and compromising equally.
Unhealthy
One of you makes all the decisions and controls everything without listening to the other's input.

Healthy
Expressing and listening to each other's feelings, needs, and desires.
Unhealthy
One of you feels unheard and is unable to communicate what you want.

Healthy
Trusting and being honest with yourself and each other.
Unhealthy
You lie to each other and find yourself making excuses for the other person.

Healthy
Respecting each other's need for privacy.
Unhealthy
You don't have any personal space and have to share everything with the other person.

Healthy
Sharing sexual histories and sexual health status with a partner.
Unhealthy
Your partner keeps his/her sexual history a secret or hides a sexually transmitted infection from you or you do not disclose your history to your partner.

Healthy
Practicing safer sex methods.
Unhealthy
You feel scared of asking your partner to use protection or s/he has refused your requests for safer sex. Or, you refuse to use safer sex methods after your partner has requested or you make your partner feel scared.

Healthy
Respecting sexual boundaries and being able to say no to sex.
Unhealthy
Your partner has forced you to have sex or you have had sex when you don't really want to. Or, you have forced or coerced your partner to have sex.

Healthy
Resolving conflicts in a rational peaceful, and mutually agreed upon way.
Unhealthy
One or both of you yells and hits, shoves or throws things at the other in an argument.

Healthy
There is room for positive growth and you learn more about each other as you develop and mature.
Unhealthy
You feel stifled, trapped, and stagnant. You are unable to escape the pressures of the relationship.

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