Healthy
Teen Dating
Healthy dating relationships should start with the same
things that healthy friendships start with: good
communication, honesty, respect and trust. Dating relationships are a little
different because they may include
physical ways of showing you care, like hugging, kissing, or holding hands. You may find yourself wanting
to spend all of your time with your crush, but it is important to spend some time apart, too. This will let you
have a healthy relationship with your crush
and with your friends and family at the same time. Healthy relationships make you feel good
about who YOU are and SAFE with the other person. Feel good about yourself and
get to know what makes you happy.
The more you love yourself, the easier it will be to find healthy relationships.
Types
of Abuse
·
Physical: Any forceful act that harms a person’s body.
·
Sexual: To
make another person do an unwanted sexual act by force or threat.
·
Verbal & Emotional:
Anything said or done that causes fear, lower self-esteem or manipulates you to control your behavior.
Cycles
of Abuse
·
Tension building: growing tension and anger-like a time bomb.
·
Explosion: violence, sexual assault, physical abuse.
·
Honeymoon: abuser seems sorry, promise to never let it
happen again, offers gifts.
Love is NOT Abuse
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