Healthy Relationships

Alpha Chi Omega Healthy Relationships Test Your Relationship IQ Choose a relationship and make a t-chart. Put a point in either the healthy or unhealthy column as it applies to your relationship. Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship Signs of a Healthy Relationship Healthy Unhealthy How do you know? How do you know? How do you know if you are in an unhealthy relationship? Family Friendship Romantic A sense that you have to fit into someone else's perception of what is right or wrong in order to be loved. You feel confined. There is always something to fix in the relationship. You feel like you're settling. Who you are is diminished in the relationship. Your needs are not met in one way or another. You feel honored. You feel more alive. There is nurturing and support for you to become more of who you are. There is strength coming from your partner allowing you to explore ways to expand into new territories. There is trust. The goals are the same, even though the ways of expressing them may be different. Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship You're never going to be good enough. You feel trapped. Being there is not what you really want, but you're afraid to leave. You find other ways to satisfy yourself to keep your mind off how unhappy you are in the situation. When it's good, it's really good, but when it's bad it's horrible. Signs of a Healthy Relationships Each brings healing into the other through depth and security. The relationship causes you to create a new dynamic based on the future rather than on what has been known in the past. There seems to be a knowing about the other person that goes beyond this time and space, as if you had known each other before. Your partner is more than you would have known to ask for. You wonder how you ever got this lucky. Set Boundaries Find the Real Issue Agree to Disagree Compromise when possible Consider Everything Conflict Resolution Write a Relationship Letter: Write a letter to someone that you value, you need to reconnect with, or you need to resolve things with. Challenge Yourself: Clip from The Break Up