Healthy Relationships

Love is Respect is a site dedicated to helping youth understand healthy relationships, learn about navigating dating relationships, personal safety, finding and providing support for peers.

February 2023 Sometimes Love Hurts.pdf

Want to strengthen your personal relationships?  Learn to practice compassion as it is a key component to every healthy interpersonal relationship.  According to Carin Goldstein, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, "Empathy is truly the heart of a relationship.  Without it, the relationship will struggle to survive."  Bottom line, empathy requires compassion. Without compassion, people can't develop healthy bonds.

Want better friendships and interpersonal relationships?  Practice compassion.

Healthy relationships are those with patterns defined by the equality wheel.  

Unhealthy relationships are those with patterns defined in the power & control wheel.

Relationships consist of any interpersonal relationship, not just dating--friendships and family connections, too.

Equality-Wheel.pdf
PowerandControl.pdf