Healthy And Unhealthy Relationships In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet are not in a very healthy relationship. Romeo is 17 years young Boy and Juliet is just 13 years old innocent girl. Romeo and Juliet were not familiar each other, they just fall in love instantly and get married as soon as they meet without getting to know each other. They need to maintain their relationship secretly from their families, so they were always in fear and suffering. Romeo and Juliet are emotionally unstable, infatuated with each other and they get married in a hurry. All these, Romeo and Juliet emotional instabilities are causing their relationship to be unhealthy. Their parents don’t know about there marriage, both families see each other as enemies. So, they can’t ‘truly’ marry …show more content…
“Have no common friends, or have a lack of respect for each other's friends and family” (Article Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships). In Romeo and Juliet’s case, where Romeo’s family “The Montagues” hate Juliet’s family “The Capulets”, and Romeo kills Tybalt knowing he is one of Juliet’s relatives, This shows how both families don’t have respect and hate each other. Without having respect to each other's family members and by hating each other, the relationship would not be very healthy. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet are in a very healthy relationship. “A healthy relationship should bring more happiness than stress into your life. Every relationship will have stress at times, but if you want to prevent it both of the people have to trust each other completely.” (Article Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships). Similarly Romeo and Juliet trust each other completely and want to get married and live together. Romeo and Juliet have this strong trust and love to each other, which is keeping their relationship very …show more content…
My tears will flow when theirs have dried, for Romeo’s banishment! Pick up the ladder. Poor ropes! You’ve been cheated! Both of us have, because Romeo is exiled.” (Shakespeare III.ii.130.155), This quote explains how Juliet is crying over Romeo’s banishment, and worried a lot a about Romeo than Tybalt’s death who is her cousin. Which shows that Romeo and Juliet are in a healthy relationship. Additionally another example of healthy relationship is “A healthy relationship is when two people develop a connection based on Mutual Respect”(Article Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships). This quote explains if you want a healthy relationship you have to have mutual respect for each other, similarly in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet have mutual respect for each other they respects each other’s opinions, this is the reason they’re in a healthy