Relationships aren’t always easy to maintain, especially when there are barriers outside of your control.
The college experience opens the door for all kinds of new relationship challenges such as casual dating, communicating with professors, roommate issues or navigating interpersonal issues in your student organization.
The Dean of Students Office and the Office of Student Life are joining together to bring our SCF Students, Healthy Relationships Week, October 11-15, 2021. Healthy Relationships Week is a week of programming dedicated to safer sex, consent, self-love, education, and more
The college experience opens the door for all kinds of new relationship challenges such as casual dating, communicating with professors, roommate issues or navigating interpersonal issues in your student organization.
The Dean of Students Office and the Office of Student Life are joining together to bring our SCF Students, Healthy Relationships Week, October 11-15, 2021. Healthy Relationships Week is a week of programming dedicated to safer sex, consent, self-love, education, and more
What Is a Healthy Relationship?
While all relationships are different, there are a few key aspects of healthy relationships:
- Should be based on equality, respect and trust.
- Shouldn’t be any imbalance in the relationship.
- Should work to address any imbalances in the relationship.
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A Quick And Easy Guide to They/Them PronounsProvided to you by the SCF Library. Also available for purchase at your local bookstores.
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Important Aspects of a Healthy Relationship
Equality
You and your partner, family or friends should view each other as equals. Respect Includes respecting human beings as unique individuals to include: respect of dignity and seeing value in each other. Communication You should feel comfortable expressing your thoughts, ideas and feelings. You should be able to agree to disagree in a constructive way. Trust Being able to trust others is key to a healthy relationship. Trust is established over the course of a relationship through showing consistency in words and actions. Responsibility & Accountability
Honesty is important in a healthy relationship. You can’t build a good foundation on lies. Boundaries Boundaries should be respected at all times.
Non-threatening behavior You should always feel safe in your relationship. You should never have to worry that your partner is going to intentionally harm you. Neither partner should try to maintain power and control over the other. (Concept includes friends and family) |
Aspects of an Unhealthy Relationship
Lack of Communication
Without communication there is not foundations to build a healthy relationship.
Continual and repeated dishonesty is not a good foundation for any relationship. Disrespect Disrespect includes name calling, breaking boundaries, and constantly questioning and criticizing the other person’s choices and decisions. Dependence Every person deserves a certain level of independence. If someone is dependent on someone financially, emotionally, or psychologically that could indicate an unhealthy relationship. Jealousy Jealousy becomes unhealthy when its constant or excessive and becomes about one partner possessing the other. Manipulation Manipulation can take many forms to include: mind games, convincing a partner to ignore their wants/desires/needs and using guilt to manipulate others. Criticism Using criticism to tear the other person down could be a form of emotional abuse. Isolation Isolation is an often used tactic by abusers to make the victims/survivor dependent on them by cutting off their ties to support networks, thus increasing their power and control in the relationship. Constant fighting While all relationships will have some conflict in them, if you are constantly fighting, this could be a bad sign. You shouldn’t have to feel combative when you’re with your partner, family or friends. Controlling behavior Domestic violence is about power and control. Behavior includes controlling where others go, see and do. Other examples include demanding social medial passwords, checking text messages, and using intimidation or coercion to get their way. Emotional, verbal and physical abuse is also a form of control. |
Healthy Relationship Presentation:
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Take the first step towards Healthy Relationships:
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The difference between healthy and unhealthy love
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U of A Sexual Assault Centre – “Let’s Talk about Alcohol and Sexual Assault”
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"A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dream, or your dignity.”