Relationships

Building Healthy Relationships

Healthy relationships with your friends, partner and family members can enhance your life and make everyone feel good about themselves. They don’t just happen though; healthy relationships take time to build and need work to keep them healthy. The more positive effort you put into a relationship, the healthier it should be.

How healthy is your friendship group?

Take this little quiz by ReachOut to see how healthy your friendship group is...

Boundaries and relationships

Boundaries are very important in all your relationships. You are responsible for your own actions. Nobody else's.

Relationships and your mood

Healthy relationships are super important for your mental health. When you spend time with people you care about, who care about you, this can help you feel connected and supported.

Having relationship issues?

It is normal to have ups and downs in all your friendships and relationships. It is also normal to have different opinions. Relationships, and people, change over time.

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Dealing with relationship break-ups

Relationships break-up for lots of reasons. It's completely normal and doesn't have to be anyone's 'fault'. Here are some good things to remember when you're going through a break-up.

Had a fight with a friend?

The way you act during a fight with a friend can have an impact on your friendship. Here are some good tips for getting through a fight with a friend.

Relationships and Consent

Consent is super important in relationships. Consent is when one person agrees or gives permission to another person to do something. It means agreeing to an action based on your knowledge of what that action involves; its possible consequences and having the option of saying no. Check out this article for more information.

Falling out with a mate

Falling out with a mate can be pretty upsetting. It can make you feel angry, confused, hurt, jealous or disappointed. While it’s common for friendships to end, it can be really hard to pick up the pieces once it’s done. Luckily, there are steps you can take to improve the situation.

Friendships and meeting new people

Unless you live by yourself on a deserted island, you're involved in all sorts of relationships: with family, friends, classmates, teachers... the list goes on. Every relationship, no matter how strong, has its ups and downs. The resources below look at how you can strengthen your relationships and suggests ways to handle potential challenges as they come along

Friendships - the power of a hug

A cute little 1 minute video about how to bring a little sunshine to a friends day

A gazillion ways to make new friends

Here are a gazillion ways to get out there, meet new people and expand or rebuild your friendship crew

Are you acting listening or actively listening?

Listening is an important part of communication that is often forgotten about. Learning how to do it better will have positive impacts on your relationships

5 things to remember when starting at a new school

If the words ‘starting at a new school’ make your stomach flip, that'd be pretty normal. While it most likely won’t be easy, there are a few things you can do to make it a little better

Check out these websites for more information:

Play Safe

Play safe provides young people with all the information they need about safe sex, getting tested and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI)

Love: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This website is for teenagers and is all about relationships and respect. Take the respect checklist, the relationship quiz, and read the true stories

Tune In Not Out

Tune In Not Out (TINO) is an award-winning portal style health and wellbeing website full of information to help young people navigate life's challenges.

Love is Respect

Love is respect aims to be a safe and inclusive space for young people to access help and information in a setting specifically for them. It provides comprehensive resources including quizzes, interactive pages, and testimonials.

If you’re feeling distressed and want to talk to someone right now, call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800, Lifeline on 13 11 14, or one of the other contacts under the Further Help? tab at the top of this page. They are available to discuss whatever is going on with you, and are trained to help you figure out what to do.

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