Healthy relationships are fun and make you feel good about yourself. You can have a healthy relationship with anyone in your life: family, friends and the people you date. Relationships take time, energy, and care to make them healthy. The relationships that you have will be a special part of your life and will teach you important lessons about who you are. The most important part of any healthy relationship between two people is communication: being able to share things about yourself and your feelings, and paying attention to what the other person shares. This can happen by talking, emailing or writing, and even using body language. One way of showing that you care using body language is by looking someone in the eye when they are talking, rather than looking at other stuff going on around you. Good communication allows you and the other person to feel comfortable with one another and figure out what you both like to do. You can also share your feelings with the other person and trust that you share private. People do not lie. Communication is based on honesty and trust or on silency.
Disagreements may still happen, but you learn to stay calm and talk about how you feel. Talking helps you understand the real reason for not getting along, and this makes it much easier to figure out how to fix the problem. In relations, working through disagreements often makes the relationship stronger. People also respect one another and themselves for working through tough times rather than giving up too easily. Feeling good about yourself, having good self-esteem and knowing that you deserve a healthy relantionship is also very important. If you do not feel that there is good communication, sharing and trust, you are probably in an unhealthy relationship. Remember that trust takes time to build and you have to take care of your relationships with thoughtfullness and patience. If you are not feeling good about how things are going, try talking to the other person about how you are feeling. If you are not able to work on making things better together, you may need to end the relationship. If it is hard for you to stop spending time together, keep talking to the other person about how to make your relationship healthier. Sometimes, there is not anything you can do to make the relationship better, and staying involved can be hurtful to you. By learning how to build healthy relationships now, I will be able to have them with people I meet throughout my life.
