healthy relationships
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HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
RELATIONSHIPS
• Relationship: a bond or connection you have with other people• Acquaintance• Casual Friend• Friend• Best Friend• Boyfriend/Girlfriend• Marriage• Family• Parent• Child• Sibling
ACCORDING TO ABRAHAM MASLOW…
• Everyone needs to be loved and to belong.
• Each of us also needs to feel safe, secure, valued, and recognized.
• Relationships provide these basic human needs
HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS CAN…
• Help you become a better person
• Give you someone to talk to when you’re having problems
• Help relieve stress
• Make life more enjoyable
ROLES
• Role: a part you play in many relationships
BRAD PITT VIDEO CLIPS
• Brad Pitt is just one person, but he has played many different roles. Is that true for all of us?
• Do we all play different roles in the relationships we have throughout our lives?
• Do the roles we play ever change?
MRS. EVANS’S ROLES
•Wife•Sister•Daughter•Friend•Student•Teacher•Aunt
•Coach•Church Member•Cook•Maid•Tenant
What are roles you play?
INGREDIENTS FOR A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
• Self Respect• Respect for Others
RESPECT FOR OTHERS
• Listen to other people
• Be considerate of other’s feelings
• Develop mutual trust
• Be realistic in your expectations
TRAITS OF HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
• Mutual Respect• Treat others with respect, they’ll respect you in return
• Caring• Treat others with kindness and consideration.• Be empathetic
• Honesty• Honest and open with others, rather than concealing
thoughts, feelings or actions
• Commitment• Contribute to the relationship and work to keep it strong,
may require sacrifices.
• Trustworthiness:• Doing what you say
you will do
• Responsibility:• borrow something
breaks you replace it.
• Fairness:• -taking turns,
sharing
• Caring:• Sympathy, empathy
• Citizenship:• Helping neighbors,
shoveling walks etc.
• Respect:• Listen when
someone is talking,
CHARACTER AND RELATIONSHIPS
UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS
Stereotyping: making an exaggerated or oversimplified judgments about people who belong to a certain group.
Prejudice: an unfair opinion or judgment of a particular group of people.
Bullying: deliberately harming or threatening other people who cannot easily defend themselves.
Hazing: making others perform certain tasks in order to join the group.
SKILLS FOR A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
• Communication• Exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two
or more people.
• Cooperation• Working together for the good of all
• Compromise• Problem-solving method in which each participant gives
up something to reach a solution that satisfies everyone.• Parents Cooperation/Compromise Challenge
RELATIONSHIP BANK ACCOUNT
We have a different bank account with every person we have a relationship with.
The quality of our relationships depends on how many deposits and withdrawals we make in each account.
When there are significant “funds” in our bank accounts, an occasional withdrawal will not damage the relationship.
Minimize withdrawals and make generous deposits on a regular basis.
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