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12 Elements of Healthy Relationships

Note: this post was updated in June 2024 to reflect new resources available to students and trainees.

In every relationship , it’s important to consider how we treat  one an other.  Whether it’s  romantic , platonic , familial, intimate , or sexual , your relationship  with another should be respectful, honest, and fun.  

When relationships are healthy, they promote  emotional and social  well ness .  When relationships are unhealthy,  you  may feel drained, overwhelmed, and  invisible .   

In a pandemic, it’s even more important to consid er how you engage with others.   B oundaries, communication, and time apart  are vital to having relationships everyone  involved  feels good about.   Reflect on your current relationships and consider how you can incorporate the  elements  listed below:  

• Communication . The way you talk with friends or partners is an important part of a relationship. Everyone involved should be able to communicate feelings, opinions, and beliefs. When communicating, consider tone and phrasing. Miscommunication often occurs when individuals choose to text versus talking in person or a phone call. Figuring out the best ways to express your feelings together will help eliminate miscommunication.
• Boundaries . Boundaries are physical, emotional, and mental limits or guidelines a person sets for themselves which others need to respect. You and your partners or friends should feel comfortable in the activities you are doing together. All individuals involved should be respectful of boundaries. Whether it’s romantic, sexual, or platonic, consider what you want the relationship to look like and discuss it with the other(s).
• Consent . Consent is important in all relationships. Consent is uncoerced permission to interact with the body or the life of another person. Coercion can look like pressure to do something, physical force, bargaining, or someone holding power over another to get what they want. Consent can look like asking about boundaries in relationships, actively listening to responses, and always respecting those boundaries.
• Trust . Each person in the relationship should have confidence in one another. If you are questioning whether to trust someone, it may be important to communicate your feelings to them. Consider what makes you not trust someone. Is it something they did, or is it something you’ve experienced in other relationships?
• Honesty . Honesty is important for communication. Each person within the relationship or friendship should have the opportunity to express their feelings and concerns. If you don’t feel comfortable being honest with someone, consider why and seek support if needed.
• Independence . It’s important to have time to yourself in any relationship. Having opportunities to hang with others or time for self-care is important to maintain a healthy relationship. If you live with your partner(s) or friend(s), set up designated areas within your place where you can spend time alone.
• Equality . Each person in the relationship should have an equal say in what’s going on. Listen to each other and respect boundaries.
• Support . Each person in the relationship should feel supported. It’s important to have compassion and empathy for one another. In addition to supporting one another, it’s important to recognize your own needs and communicate boundaries around support.
• Responsibility . Some days you may find you said something hurtful or made a mistake. Make sure to take responsibility for your actions and do not place the blame on your partner(s) or friend(s). Taking responsibility for your actions will further trust and honesty.
• Healthy conflict . You may think conflict is a sign of an unhealthy relationship, but talking about issues or disagreements is normal. You won’t find a person that has the exact same interests, opinions, and beliefs as you; thus, at times disagreements may occur. Communicating your feelings and opinions while being respectful and kind is part of a healthy relationship.
• Safety . Safety is the foundation of connection in a relationship. In order to set boundaries, communicate, and have fun, everyone must feel safe. If you do not feel safe to express your feelings, have independence, or anything else on this list, seek support using the resources below.
• Fun . In addition to all these components, you should be enjoying the time you spend with others. Again, it’s important that your relationships promote your well-being and do not diminish it.

Want to learn more about healthy relationships? Check out this quiz by Love is Respect , a project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline .

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Building Healthy Relationships With 40 Helpful Worksheets

The quality of our relationships with others affects our personal and professional lives and our sense of belonging to a wider community and humanity (Halford, Pepping, & Petch, 2018; Murray, Ross, & Cannon, 2021; Yucel, 2018).

However, even the healthiest relationships will encounter problems, misunderstandings, and confusion from time to time. Healthy relationships are not pain free or perfect. To maintain healthy relationships, we need healthy interpersonal boundaries, good communication skills, and the capacity for compassion and forgiveness for the all too human mistakes we all make (Yucel, 2018).

This article provides relationship-focused worksheets, recommends helpful relationship books, and offers additional resources from our extensive library at PositivePsychology.com.

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Building healthy relationships with people takes time. Developing trust is essential and requires mutual openness and authenticity to flourish (Falconier et al., 2015).

We also need to be mindful of the appropriate boundaries for different types of relationships, such as work colleagues, parents, children, partners, friends, and acquaintances (Davis, Morris & Drake, 2017; Murray, Ross, & Cannon, 2021).

Knowing Your Partner

For most of us, the relationship we have with our significant other will be one of the most important and challenging relationships of our lifetimes (Yucel, 2018). All partnerships encounter problems especially in the longer term, when the initial excitement of romance wears off (Falconier et al., 2015).

Use the worksheets below to address common issues that arise between couples as the relationship develops. These worksheets can also be used as tools when counseling couples or downloaded as a self-help resource.

1. The High Quality Relationships (HQR) Worksheet

The HQR worksheet invites you to reflect on six areas common to all types of relationships, their quality, and therefore healthiness. These areas assess your capacity for:

• constructive emotional expression
• managing challenges
• accepting diversity
• interactive vitality
• positive regard

Starting with this self-assessment worksheet reveals areas where relationship healthiness might be lacking.

2. Imago Workup

This Imago worksheet helps identify the qualities you want in a prospective romantic partner. It particularly draws on how childhood experiences and related attachment patterns affect the development of a romantic partnership as an adult.

3. About Your Partner

You can use the about your partner worksheet to check how much attention you pay to your partner and how well you know them as a person. It covers several life domains, including the things they most enjoy, what they want for the future, the things they most like about you, their relationships with other people, and their feelings about work and money.

4. Good Qualities

This good qualities worksheet helps couples reflect on what they appreciate about each other. It’s common for couples to forget why they were first attracted to each other as the relationship matures.

5. Valuing My Partner

Similarly, this valuing my partner worksheet helps couples who tend to focus on each other’s negative qualities to remember when they first met and what they value about each other now.

6. Three Things We Have In Common

This worksheet helps partners appreciate the commonalities and differences between them that make their relationship work. It should be completed by partners together and the answers discussed, raising awareness of each other’s complementary qualities.

7. Relationship Qualities

Couples tend to forget each other’s strengths when their relationship is tainted by conflict. This worksheet logs a list of activities to re-visit as a couple that have inspired positive feelings in the past.

8. Understanding The Big Picture

The big picture worksheet helps couples concentrate on their shared vision of the future to get through the more mundane and difficult times that every long-term relationship encounters. It uses miracle questions to build trust and connection with your partner and rekindle shared dreams.

9. Mutual Relationship Vision

Building on the big picture, this relationship vision worksheet encourages partners to note down all those things they most want from their relationship to make it ideal. Often couples lose sight of what excites and inspires their partner and as we grow, these things can also change.

10. Ranking Priorities in a Relationship

As our relationships mature, we can start taking our partner for granted and spend our spare time doing things that add no value to our relationship. This ranking exercise helps couples focus on expressing their values as a couple in a range of life domains, and prioritize the shared experiences that bring them the greatest fulfillment.

11. Interviewing Your Partner

Early in a relationship, we want to uncover as much as possible about our partner. However, that interest can dwindle as they become more familiar. This worksheet encourages couples to express curiosity about each other and rekindle interest in their partner.

12. Caring Behaviors List

This list of caring behaviors encourages couples to reflect on how their partner makes them feel loved and cared for. It is important to keep relationships alive by sharing experiences that have a special meaning for each other.

13. Create a Connection Ritual

Creating a positive connection ritual helps couples make time for each other and can prevent them from drifting apart. This worksheet guides couples on how to create a regular connection that meets both partners’ needs for intimacy.

14. What Makes a Perfect Day

Knowing that our partner wants to make us happy has positive consequences in a relationship. This perfect day worksheet encourages each partner to reflect on how they can turn a partner’s bad day into a good one. Each partner can learn how to make slight changes that profoundly affect each other’s lives.

Good communication and understanding how to manage conflict are essential relationship maintenance skills (Halford, Pepping, & Petch, 2018).

Improve communication

15. effective communication reflection worksheet.

Effective communication requires a few simple skills that can be easily overlooked. This effective communication worksheet lists the basic verbal and non-verbal communication skills that we can use to build trust and understanding in any situation.

16. How to Improve Communication in Relationships: 7 Essential Skills

This how to improve communication worksheet outlines a set of seven essential communication skills that enable us to listen actively and respond constructively, without judgment.

17. Active Listening Reflection Worksheet

Active listening involves a combination of verbal and non-verbal communication skills that improve our ability to absorb, understand, and respond to what is being said.

This active listening worksheet outlines each skill and encourages you to reflect on how it can improve communication.

18. Capitalizing Positive Emotions With Active Constructive Responding

This worksheet is designed for a minimum of two people in a relationship but could be used with more. It focuses on how we communicate when things go right for others and ourselves.

Sometimes, an individual’s success can evoke jealousy, resentment, or envy in others. Active constructive responding counters negative responses by enhancing our appreciation of other people’s positive qualities and successes.

19. Knowing When to Speak Up

Sometimes it’s difficult to know when to speak up and stand your ground about something.

This knowing when to speak up worksheet offers guidance about when it is appropriate to speak up in a range of relationship situations, including the workplace.

Naikan Therapy

A Buddhist monk called Ishin Yoshimoto developed Naikan Therapy in 1940s’ Japan (Krech, 2001). It involves a rigorous process of introspection based on three core questions: what have I received, what have I given, and what problems and difficulties have I caused? It’s used in marital therapy to encourage partners to see themselves through the eyes of their partner and others in general.

20. Self-Reflection on Intimate Relationships

This reflection worksheet encourages each partner to reflect on their partner’s needs and how their behavior has affected their significant other. Partnerships can deteriorate when one or both partners put their own needs first.

21. Daily and Weekly Naikan Reflection Review and Goals

This Naikan reflection worksheet guides you through a daily reflection using the three Naikan questions to encourage greater self-awareness.

22. Self-Reflection Behavior Review

This self-reflection worksheet comprises a series of tabulated questions for clients in therapy or counseling about their behavior during a periodic review. The three Naikan questions are used to encourage a client’s reflection on the effects of their behavior, and what they need to be mindful of in the future.

Managing conflict positively

Some conflict is inevitable in any relationship given our all-too-human capacity for misunderstanding others and the fact that we’ll never agree with another person about everything. Conflict resolution is a valuable skill that transforms friction into creative tension, a driver of positive change (Shipley et al., 2018).

23. Conflict Resolution Checklist

This conflict resolution checklist invites the parties in a conflict to consider the sources of their differences using a checklist, and what needs to change to resolve their conflict.

24. What Are Your Unique Triggers?

This ‘triggers’ worksheet improves self-awareness of the events that trigger our stress reactions, which are essential for managing conflict.

25. Remaining Calm During Conflict

When dealing with difficult situations, it is essential to remain calm as losing our patience only escalates conflict. This remaining calm worksheet provides tips for conflict resolution in the workplace which is crucial for retaining the respect of those we work with.

26. Anger Exit and Re-Entry Routines: The Pause that Refreshes

This anger management worksheet asks you to consider what signals indicate the need for a pause to cool off and prevent the escalation of conflict with another. A pause can enhance clarity and more effective communication.

27. The EQ 5 Point Tool

EQ refers to our emotional intelligence quotient . This EQ worksheet explains how to use the EQ 5 point tool to defuse and resolve conflict.

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In this section, we focus on the relationship challenges that can lead to distance and distrust that can even escalate into emotional abuse .

Authenticity

These three worksheets focus on authenticity and assess how a lack of honesty with yourself and others impacts your relationships.

Nobody enjoys being deceived or manipulated, so discovering that others that we love and respect have been less than straightforward can undermine and even destroy relationships (Olaf et al., 2021).

28. Relationship Audit

The relationship audit invites your client to assess their degree of authenticity with others.

29. Relationship Authenticity Checklist

This checklist comprises a checklist of indicators of your level of authenticity with yourself and others in relationships, and what needs to change if authenticity is lacking.

30. Finding Discrepancies

This finding discrepancies worksheet invites you to consider any discrepancies revealed by the assessments of authenticity above and the impacts they will have on different areas of your life if they continue or stop.

Codependency

Codependent relationships are characterized by a need to control others; an overwhelming sense of responsibility for the other’s moods, feelings, or problems; a lack of authentic communication; and poor interpersonal boundaries (Bacon et al., 2020).

Codependency can affect intimate partnerships, friendships, and other types of family relationships. The following three worksheets are designed to assess levels of codependency and transform codependency patterns.

31. Codependency Questionnaire

This codependency questionnaire assesses the codependent tendencies of the respondent.

32. Codependent Relationships: Beliefs, Attributes, and Outcomes

This worksheet assesses the level of codependency in a relationship which is typically characterized by an excessive dependence on another’s approval for one’s sense of identity and self-worth.

33. Shifting Codependency Patterns

This worthwhile worksheet describes typical codependent behaviors and asks those with codependent relationships how they can adopt behaviors that support mature, healthy relationships.

Skills for healthy romantic relationships – Joanne Davila

Group Therapy Activities

The following group therapy exercises support the development of healthy relationships in all kinds of groups.

34. Practice Verbal Communication Skills

Although this communications worksheet is aimed at therapists and counselors in training, it can also be used as a team-building exercise that supports the development of group communication skills.

35. Things I Love

This checklist provides a way of checking the things you love in a range of life domains. It is a group exercise, and every group member needs a chance to contribute to deepen the positive connections in the group.

36. What I See in You

This group exercise boosts each member’s self-esteem by asking others about their positive qualities. Often, people are surprised to hear how much they are appreciated and valued by others.

37. Create a Care Package Worksheet

This care package exercise reveals what is most important to each participant. You are asked to name ten things you would take to start a new life in an unknown location and what they mean to you. Sharing the exercise in a group helps to build deeper understanding between group members.

38. Silent Connections

This silent connections worksheet outlines an exercise based on mindfulness of other people and using non-verbal communication to build social connections. Mindfulness improves our sensitivity to others and supports constructive social engagement in a range of contexts.

39. Blindfold Guiding Exercise

This blindfolded guide exercise is used to build trust in groups. A blindfolded member experiences the vulnerability required to extend trust while being guided by another.

40. Human Typewriter

The human typewriter outlines a fun team-building exercise that helps build social cohesion and cooperation in groups.

The following five books are useful resources for those seeking to improve their intimate partnerships and resolve and heal betrayal in different types of relationships.

1. Betrayal Bond, Revised: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships – Patrick Carnes

These include intimate partnerships, with family members, friends, and work colleagues.

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2. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts – Gary Chapman

The book helps readers identify the types of verbal and nonverbal communication that enhance and deepen emotional intimacy.

3. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love – Sue Johnson

It is based on relationship case studies and includes a range of exercises.

4. Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples (3rd Edition) – Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt

It includes several useful exercises to help improve communication and enhance mutual support.

5. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman and Nan Silver

The authors include a range of exercises and questionnaires.

In addition to the resources offered above, you may be interested in our Positive Relationships Masterclass , a 6-module science-based relationships training for helping professionals.

Scientific research over the past few decades has shown that social relationships are one of the key contributors to personal happiness and wellbeing.

People with a strong support network are much more resilient. Our Masterclass introduces you to the vital elements of healthy relationships that promote human flourishing and provides a range of practical tools to help you and your clients develop and sustain meaningful social connections.

In addition, you might find the following articles useful:

• 11+ Honesty Worksheets & Tests for Adults
• What Is Marriage Psychology? +6 Tips for Therapists
• The Importance of Forgiveness in Marriage and Relationships
• Attachment Styles in Relationships: 6 Worksheets for Adults

If you’re looking for more science-based ways to help others build healthy relationships, this collection contains 17 validated positive relationships tools for practitioners. Use them to help others form healthier, more nurturing, and life-enriching relationships.

17 Exercises for Positive, Fulfilling Relationships

Empower others with the skills to cultivate fulfilling, rewarding relationships and enhance their social wellbeing with these 17 Positive Relationships Exercises [PDF].

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We hope you found this article and related resources helpful. Human beings are social animals and we need healthy relationships as much as the air we breathe. However, the skills required to start and sustain healthy relationships are not taught in any formal sense, but modeled to most of us by family members, other adults, and peers during childhood.

This is fine if we come from a functional family and community that modeled healthy relationships. Yet each of us is subject to too many influences as we grow and develop to emerge into adulthood unscathed by poor communication and faulty patterns of relating.

The good news is that we can remedy the situation and build healthy relationships nevertheless by improving our communication skills, and learning how to be more authentic, compassionate, and forgiving with others, as well as ourselves.

We hope you enjoyed reading this article. Don’t forget to download our three Positive Relationships Exercises for free .

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• Krech, G. (2001). Naikan: gratitude, grace and the Japanese art of self-reflection . Stone Bridge Press.
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Skills for Healthy Relationships Chapter 6 Section1

Section Objectives • Describe 4 techniques for communicating effectively • Describe how compromise can be an effective way to resolve conflicts • Identify successful strategies for working in a group

Barriers to communication video • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2vkWwvf7NY

Effective Communication • Communication is the process of sharing information, thoughts or feelings • Learning to communicate effectively is an ACQUIRED skill, it takes practice • With practice, you can master the skills of effective communication- using “I” messages, active listening, assertiveness and body language

“I” messages • A statement of feelings and expectations that do not blame or judge the other person • Helps a person to take responsibility for their feelings

“I” Messages • I feel… • When… • Because…

Let’s Try a few • "I can't believe you. Where is the jacket I let you borrow?"

Let’s Try a few • "Get out of my way; can't you see that I am trying to get some work done?"

Let’s Try a few • "You are so dumb, you can't do anything right!"

Active Listening • Focusing your full attention on what the other person is saying, and at the same time, letting that person know you understand and care

Active Listening • Show interest by nodding your head and showing concern on your face • Encourage the speaker to begin by saying “Do you want to talk about it?” or “You seem upset about…” • While the speaker is talking, offer comments such as “I know what you mean” or “Then what happened?” • Avoid passing judgment on what the speaker says

Active Listening • Show you have been listening by summarizing the speaker’s ideas with phrases such as “It sounds like you were angry when…” or “I heard you say…” • Help the speaker explore things further with phrases such as “Tell me more about…” or “I guess you felt…” • Don’t you steer the conversation away from the speaker’s problem and onto your own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1jzdSzGHnA

Assertiveness • Passive vs Assertive vs Aggressive • .What’s the difference between the 3?

Body Language • A way of communicating information, or feelings non verbally, through body movements, posture, gestures and facial expressions • communication is only 7 percent verbal and 93 percentnon-verbal (tone of voice 38% and body language 55%)

Body Language • Eye contact is meeting someone’s gaze • Failure to make eye contact can be interpreted by some people as: shyness, embarrassment, indifference or sneakiness • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vicuZS0ChYQ

Body Language • Varies greatly from culture to culture • Latin American and Arab cultures generally stand closer together when they talk than people from the US • Japanese and Native American cultures consider it disrespectful to look a person in the eye in some situations

Cooperation • Working together for a common goal • Important in all relationships, especially those with family members and close friends

Compromise • The willingness of each person to give up something in order to reach agreement • Skill of give-and-take, both parties must be willing to sacrifice something to get something in return

Compromise • You and a friend are having a disagreement. You would like to go to a party tonight but your friend would rather go bowling. How would you handle this problem? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg3dAmhFJdE

Friendships Chapter 6 Section 2

Section Objectives Students will be able to: • Identify qualities that are important in close friends

Friendship A give-and-take relationship based on mutual trust, acceptance, and common interests or values People look to friends for honest reactions, for encouragement during bad times, and for understanding when they make mistakes Friends offer a sense of belonging, they understand and care about you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xgjUhEG3U

Importance of Friendships Friendship gives you opportunities to develop your communication skills They also allow you to try out various roles such as: leader, helper, advice-seeker, or supporter

Types of Friendships • Casual Friendships • Close Friendships • Friendships with the Opposite Gender

Casual Friendships • Friendships of “convenience” • Typically short-term, offer the chance to have fun, try new things, and to learn to get along with a variety of people • May remain casual or they may develop into deeper, long-lasting friendships over time

Close Friendships • Researchers found that people generally form close relationships with individuals who share similar goals, values or interests • Other studies suggest that people get along better with individuals whose personalities complement their own

Close Friendships 4 Qualities that are important in a close friend: • Loyalty • Honesty • Empathy (the ability to understand how another person feels) • Reliability

Close Friendships • Provide emotional security • A sense of belonging • The opportunity for people to see themselves as others see them For teens, close friendships offer a way to grow outside of their family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ZzBcjVcrk

Friendships with Opposite Gender Gender roles- behaviors and attitudes that are socially accepted as either masculine or feminine In the US today, gender roles are much less rigid than in the past In choosing friends today, people look for people with similar interests and goals no matter the gender Some may develop into romantic relationships while others simply remain friendships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFJFfegkj4

Problems in Friendships Envy & Jealousy Envy is being upset because you are lacking something (material) Jealousy is being upset because you feel left out (person) When these feelings arise, use “I” messages to get your feelings into the open. Be sure to LISTEN to each other and try to COMPROMISE to work things out

Problems in Friendships Transferring Anger • When someone transfers their pain/anxiety/anger onto their close friends If this happens, try to find out what the real problem is, use “I” messages to state your feelings and LISTEN

Problems in Friendships CLIQUES and GANGS A clique is a narrow, exclusive group of people with similar backgrounds or interests Members of a clique may experience peer pressure (the need to conform to the expectations of friends or a group). Peer pressure can be positive or negative

Problems in Friendships CLIQUES and GANGS A gang is made up of people with similar backgrounds, interests, and values who are unaccepting of anyone who is different The dislike of others can stem from prejudices (negative feelings about certain groups of people that are based on stereotypes) A stereotypes is an exaggerated or overgeneralized beliefs about an entire group

Chapter 6 Section 3 Dating Relationships

Section Objectives Students will be able to: • Explain why emotional intimacy is important in close relationships

Dating Relationships • The values you learn from your family, religious teachings, personal experiences, and friends influence your thinking about questions involving physical intimacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_E4_H0Y_wM

Physical Attraction & Dating • Infatuation is the feelings of intense, sometimes overwhelming, attraction to another person • Infatuation = Crush = Normal, healthy feelings • Infatuation = Stalking

Physical Attraction & Dating • Dating is typically the way that teenagers get to know people to whom they are attracted • It is natural and healthy to feel physical attraction and to want to get to know someone better • Can help you develop communication and decision-making skills and to learn how the other person views the roles that they learned as a child

Physical Attraction & Dating • You may even discover what qualities you want in a future marriage partner (or don’t want!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVtlx1JCSg8

Steady Dating • Steady dating with one person can be a form of security • Eventually, it can be a time of courtship that may lead to engagement and marriage • Having a “steady date” gives you the chance to get to know the person very well BUT it also limits your chances of meeting other people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwuVwOhFu58

Physical Intimacy Natural for teenagers to feel sexually attracted to someone, it is also natural to be a little confused and unsure of how to handle those feelings Teenagers should think ahead and set limits ahead of time By setting limits before a situation arises, it is easier to stick to the standards that you set

Physical Intimacy Effect on Self-Esteem • Decisions about physical intimacy should be based on the values you hold • When a decision to become sexually involved goes against a person’s values, the person may feel guilty and ashamed • Lowered self-esteem often results when someone makes a snap decision about sexual intimacy or when sex is used to prove something to oneself or others

Physical Intimacy Effect on your relationship • Sexual intimacy can affect each partner’s expectations of the relationship • Often couples are unprepared for the additional complications that sexual intimacy adds to their relationship (which tend to be permanent)

Physical Intimacy Risk of Pregnancy and STIs • 1 in 6 teenage girls who engage in intercourse will become pregnant • The only 100% way to prevent pregnancy and STIs is to abstain from sex

Emotional Intimacy • The openness, sharing, affection, and trust that can develop in a close relationship • For emotional intimacy to develop, partners must communicate honestly and be accepting and supportive of each other

Thinking About Marriage Chapter 6 Section 4

Section Objectives Students will be able to: • List some characteristics of successful marriages

Why do people get married? • The desire for another person’s love and companionship • Financial security • Social growth • To start a family • Because it’s expected

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