What relationships have a positive impact on you?
Positive relationships involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between people and they take effort and compromise from both people. There is no imbalance of power.
Partners respect each other’s independence, and each can make their own decisions without fear of retribution or retaliation, and share in decision-making.
The characteristics of healthy relationships include
- Respect for privacy and space.
- Your partner encourages you to spend time with friends and family without them and to participate in activities that you enjoy.
- You feel comfortable expressing your opinions and concerns with each other,
- You feel physically safe and they don’t force anything on you or do things that make you comfortable
- Your partner respects your wishes and feelings and you can compromise and negotiate when there are disagreements or conflicts.
Every relationship must have boundaries, communication, trust, and consent.
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