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Types of relationships

Make sure you are building healthy connections in your relationships.

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Because the signs of abuse might be unrecognizable at first, any important relationship should be evaluated periodically to ensure you’re building healthy connections.

Healthy relationship
  • Open communication and active listening.
  • Respect for one another’s minds and bodies.
  • Trust in one another.
  • Honesty, with an appreciation for privacy.
  • Personal space when necessary.
  • Equality in expectations and decision-making.
  • Mutual sexual choices based on consent, comfort, and safety.
Unhealthy relationship
  • Little communication and frequent fights.
  • Disrespect for one another’s minds and bodies.
  • Distrust in what one another says or does.
  • Dishonesty and lies from one or both parties.
  • Little personal space.
  • Inequality, with one or both parties believing their desires are more important than the others’.
  • Pressure to engage in sexual activity by one or both parties.
Abusive relationship
  • Hurtful communication and insults.
  • Harmful treatment of the mind and body of one or both parties.
  • Accusations followed by physical or verbal attacks.
  • Denial of abusive actions.
  • Isolation from family and friends.
  • Control of one party’s thoughts and actions by the other.
  • Forced or nonconsensual sexual activity.

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