Healthy Relationships
Power and Control Wheel
What IS a Healthy Relationship?
A healthy, loving relationship means that you:
- Trust one another.
- Respect each other's bodies, opinions, friends, family and belongings.
- Accept each other for who you are .
- Are able to be yourself.
- Support one another's goals and interests.
- Encourage each other to do and be your best.
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Everyone deserves to be loved and to feel safe and secure in their relationships. |
What Is NOT a Healthy Relationship?
An unhealthy relationship involves:
- One person trying to exert power and control over another.
- Physical, emotional, verbal, financial or sexual abuse among others.
- People of every race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion and income level.
- The use of fear or intimidation to control how someone talks and acts both now and in the future.
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Abuse is never okay and no one ever deserves to be abused. |
How to Help a Friend or Family Member
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