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Building Healthy Relationships: Understanding, Recognizing, and Maintaining

Learn about the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, how to recognize signs of trouble, and tools for effective communication and conflict resolution to foster meaningful connections.

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Building Healthy Relationships: Understanding, Recognizing, and Maintaining

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  1. Healthy Relationships

  2. What is a Relationship? • Type of connection existing between people related to or having communication with each other. • Examples – family, friends, dating, marriage

  3. Characteristics of a Healthy Relationship • Open Communication • Mutual Respect • Honesty • Trust • Support • Fairness/Equality

  4. When a Relationship Goes Sour • How do you recognize the signs of an unhealthy relationship?

  5. Characteristics of an Unhealthy Relationship • Manipulation • Controlling • Criticizing • Intimidation • Unhappy in the relationship • Threatening or mistreating

  6. How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship • The ingredients are simple: • Appreciate each other’s qualities • Have good communication • Keep realistic expectations • Have shared interests • Have the ability to face and deal with conflicts together • Value yourself and the other person

  7. What is conflict? • To be in disagreement, or contradiction; any clash of ideas or interests.

  8. Communicating During Conflicts • Some things that you can be aware of to communicate more effectively during a conflict are: • Express yourself – stay calm, but explain your feelings • Choose the right words • Body language • Listening • Negotiation • Be Assertive

  9. Tools for solving a conflict • Mediation – objective third party helps • Negotiation – mutual discussion and arrangement • Compromise – a settlement of differences by mutual concessions (meet in the middle) • Empathy – seeing things from another persons perspective

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