Relationships
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Signs of a Healthy Relationship
- Feeling like your own person
- Feeling responsible for your own happiness
- Togetherness and separateness are balanced
- Friendships exist outside of the relationship
- Focuses on the best qualities of both people
- Achieving intimacy without chemicals
- Open, honest and assertive communication
- Commitment to partner
- Respecting the differences in partner
- Accepting changes in the relationship
- Asking honestly for what is wanted
- Accepting endings
Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship
- Feeling incomplete without your partner
- Relying on your partner for happiness
- Too much or too little togetherness
- Inability to establish and maintain friendship with others
- Focuses in the worst qualities of partner
- Using alcohol/drugs to reduce inhibitions and achieve a false sense of intimacy
- Game-playing, unwillingness to listen, manipulation
- Jealousy, relationship addiction or lack of commitment
- Blaming the partner for his or her own unique qualities
- Feeling that the relationship should always be the same
- Feeling unable to express what is wanted
- Unable to let go
