How To Maintain A Relationship

A healthy relationship should bring more happiness than stress into your life. Every relationship will have stress at times, but you want to prevent prolonged mental stress on either member of the relationship.

Below are some characteristic that maybe present in your healthy relationships.

While in a healthy relationship you:

• Take care of yourself and have good self-esteem independent of your relationship
• Maintain and respect each other’s individuality
• Maintain relationships with friends and family
• Have activities apart from one another
• Are able to express yourselves to one another without fear of consequences
• Are able to feel secure and comfortable
• Allow and encourage other relationships
• Take interest in one another’s activities
• Do not worry about violence in the relationship
• Trust each other and be honest with each other
• Have the option of privacy
• Have respect for sexual boundaries
• Are honest about sexual activity if it is a sexual relationship
• Accept influence. Relationships are give and take; allowing your partner to influence you is important; this can be especially difficult for some men.
• Resolve conflict fairly: Fighting is part of even healthy relationships, the difference is how the conflict is handled. Fighting fairly is an important skill you help you have healthier relationships.