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Healthy Relationships

Healthy Relationships

Healthy Relationships

Healthy relationships — with family, friends, and romantic partners — are based on mutual respect, trust, honesty, and good communication. Unhealthy relationships involve control, manipulation, jealousy, or abuse.
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Healthy vs Unhealthy Signs

Healthy: both people feel respected, you can express opinions freely, disagreements are resolved calmly. Unhealthy: one person controls the other, threats or insults are used, you feel afraid to disagree, your privacy is not respected.
Note

Remember

You have the right to set boundaries in any relationship. If someone does not respect your boundaries, speak to a trusted adult. Childline: 0800 055 555.

Key Vocabulary

BoundaryA personal limit you set to protect your physical and emotional wellbeing
Mutual respectWhen both people in a relationship value and honour each other
ManipulationUnfairly controlling or influencing someone for your own benefit

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