1. Healthy Relationships 9th Grade Health
By: Amirah Muneer

2. Relationships Healthy relationships are an essential part of health.
Increase life span.
Relationships can help relieve stress.
Healthy body functioning.
Being alone can pose health risks

3. Types of Relationships
Family
Friends
Casual
Romantic

4. Characteristics of healthy relationships
Mutual respect
Trust/support
Honesty/accountability
Shared responsibility
Negotiation/fairness
Non Threatening behavior
Good communication

5. Signs of a healthy relationship
Take care of yourself.
Respect for each others individuality.
Maintain relationships with friends/family
Activities apart from each other.
Freedom to express yourself.
Feeling secure and comfortable.

6. Characteristics of unhealthy relationships
Using intimidation.
Using emotional abuse.
Harmful behavior.
Compatibility problems.
Codependence.
Jealousy.

7. Signs of an unhealthy relationship
Pressure to change who you are.
Pressure to quit usual activities.
Justifying your action
Lack of privacy.
Physical violence
Controlling each other.

8. Beginning Stages
There are 3 steps to take in developing healthy relationship patterns
Build
Establish
Explore

9. Expectations in relationships
Respect changes.
Accept differences.
Express wants and needs.
Respect your partners rights.
Be prepared to “fight fair.”
Maintain the relationship.

10. Outside pressures Differences in background. Time together and apart.
Your partners family.
Friends.

11. When problems arise…. Understand each others family patterns.
Timing counts.
Establish an atmosphere of emotional support.
Agree to disagree and move on.
Separate wants from needs.
Clarify your messages.

12. Dominant Patterns Survival relationships
Feeling of dependence on partner.
“I am nothing without you.”
Abusive relationship.
Limited sense of personal boundaries.
“Relationship junkies.”

13. Validation Relationships
Validation of physical attractiveness etc.
Insecurity.
Diminishing self esteem.
Partners may drift apart.

14. Scripted Relationships “The perfect pair.” Career oriented couple.
Partners become “invisible.”
Stuck in old patters

15. Acceptance Relationships
Ideal relationship.
Trust, support, and enjoyment.
Set limits.

16. Individuation- Assertion Relationships Based on wants and needs
Individuation- Assertion Relationships Based on wants and needs. Partners are encouraging. Appreciation of differences. Open-minded.

17. Collateral Patterns Healing Relationships
Experiencing loss, struggle, deprivation, mourning.
Partners reflect on their past.
Provide support and comfort.
Multiple healing relationships.

18. Experimental relationships “Trying it out” relationship
Experimental relationships “Trying it out” relationship. Transitional relationships Cross between old and new

19. Avoidance relationship
Avoid deep intimacy with others.
Pastime relationship
A summer romance

20. Is your relationship healthy?
What do you like about your partner?
Is your partner accepting of your friends?
Is your partner happy about your ambitions?
Does your partner respect your opinions?
Does he/she listen to you?
Can he/she discuss his/her feelings?

21. Ending quote
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.  ~ Stephen R. Covey

22. References http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/lynch.html