Relationship Reflection
A relationship is either healthy or unhealthy. The only way to determine whether your relationship is healthy or not, is to step out of your own relationship and think about it. Healthy and unhealthy relationships have many different qualities. A healthy relationship is one with mutual respect for one another, trust, honestly, support during good and bad times, fairness, separate identities, and good communication. However, when these qualities are not present and qualities such as disrespectful, control, or abusive behavior are present, the relationship is unhealthy. When verbal insults, mean language, hitting/slapping, and force are shown, it is also warning sign that there is abuse in the relationship. When one is in a unhealthy relationship it should be fixed or the person should just leave it.
Throughout our lifetime, different relationships are established with different people. Along with these different people, come different types of relationships. Whether they are family relationships, friendships, work, or love. Survival relationships are one type of relationship, it is where one partner feels like he/she cannot make it on his/her own and needs a partner, or both partners may feel that way. This relationship is just based on the person’s personal need of having someone to comfort and provide for. An issue that is usually associated with survival relationships is abuse and hostility because each partner is just trying to get the other to provide what he/she is missing. Abusive relationships are one where a partner is either hurt or harmed from the other, either physically, mentally, verbally, etc. A conflict that can arise is someone getting seriously injured, even killed. If I was in this relationship, I would seek help from anyone. Sometimes the abuser may not even know what he is doing. However, if he is aware, leaving is what I’d do. Sexual relationships are another type of relationship based solely on sex. Another relationship is a friend with
Throughout our lifetime, different relationships are established with different people. Along with these different people, come different types of relationships. Whether they are family relationships, friendships, work, or love. Survival relationships are one type of relationship, it is where one partner feels like he/she cannot make it on his/her own and needs a partner, or both partners may feel that way. This relationship is just based on the person’s personal need of having someone to comfort and provide for. An issue that is usually associated with survival relationships is abuse and hostility because each partner is just trying to get the other to provide what he/she is missing. Abusive relationships are one where a partner is either hurt or harmed from the other, either physically, mentally, verbally, etc. A conflict that can arise is someone getting seriously injured, even killed. If I was in this relationship, I would seek help from anyone. Sometimes the abuser may not even know what he is doing. However, if he is aware, leaving is what I’d do. Sexual relationships are another type of relationship based solely on sex. Another relationship is a friend with
References: http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/relationships/healthy_relationship.html# http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/lynch.html http://www.systemiccoaching.com/sw_articles_eng/abusive.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/15/teenage-relationship-abuse-prevalent-nspcc