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Are You in a Healthy Relationship?
We all have relationships with many people around us and all of these relationships are different. Whether it is with friends, family, partners, or anyone else,it is important to know how to have healthy relationships with the people in our lives. Healthy relationships
increase our self-esteem, improve mental and emotional health, and help us have fullerlives. Here we focus mostly on significant others (partners, girlfriends, boyfriends, and intimate relationships).
However, most everything found here can be applied to any relationship. Ourrelationships can all benefit by learning how to communicate with others in a healthy way.

Is your boyfriend or girlfriend dangerous?
Are you going out with someone who…Is jealous or possessive towardyou? Won't let you have friends? Checks up on you? Won't accept breaking up? Tries to control you by being bossy? Giving orders? Making all the decisions? Doesn't take you seriously?

• Is scary?You worry about how s/he will react to things you say or do? Threatens you? Uses or owns weapons?
• Is violent—has a history of fighting? Loses temper easy? Brags about mistreating others?
•Pressures you for sex? Is forceful about sex? Thinks of you as a sex object? Tries to pressure you by saying "If you really loved me you would…"? Gets too serious too fast?
• Abuses drugs or alcohol andpressures you to take them?
• Blames you for the mistreatment they might say that you provoked him/her, pushed his/her buttons, made him/her do it, led him/her on?
• Has a history of badrelationships and always blames other people for their problems?

• Believes that in a relationship one person should be in control and have all the power and the other person should be submissive?
• Yourfriends and family have warned you about the person or told you they are worried about your safety?
If this is your case… get help!
Being in a HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP means … If you are in an...