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Healthy Relationships. What is a Relationship?. Type of connection existing between people related to or having communication with each other. Examples – family, friends, dating, marriage. Characteristics of a Healthy Relationship. Open Communication Mutual Respect Honesty Trust
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What is a Relationship? • Type of connection existing between people related to or having communication with each other. • Examples – family, friends, dating, marriage
Characteristics of a Healthy Relationship • Open Communication • Mutual Respect • Honesty • Trust • Support • Fairness/Equality
When a Relationship Goes Sour • How do you recognize the signs of an unhealthy relationship?
Characteristics of an Unhealthy Relationship • Manipulation • Controlling • Criticizing • Intimidation • Unhappy in the relationship • Threatening or mistreating
How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship • The ingredients are simple: • Appreciate each other’s qualities • Have good communication • Keep realistic expectations • Have shared interests • Have the ability to face and deal with conflicts together • Value yourself and the other person
What is conflict? • To be in disagreement, or contradiction; any clash of ideas or interests.
Communicating During Conflicts • Some things that you can be aware of to communicate more effectively during a conflict are: • Express yourself – stay calm, but explain your feelings • Choose the right words • Body language • Listening • Negotiation • Be Assertive
Tools for solving a conflict • Mediation – objective third party helps • Negotiation – mutual discussion and arrangement • Compromise – a settlement of differences by mutual concessions (meet in the middle) • Empathy – seeing things from another persons perspective