Healthy Relationships

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Healthy Relationships

Relationships are essential to humans as apart of living life. But there is no such thing as a perfect relationship. From family,friends and to lovers are kinds of relationships that add enjoyment and meaning to life. The student success session on Healthy Relationships teaches the main values of a healthy and unhealthy relationship between 2 peers or significant others. What is a healthy relationship? How can you identify an unhealthy relationship?

A healthy relationship is when 2 people develop a connection based on mutual respect, trust, honesty, communication etc.. This applies to all relationships, a healthy relationship needs to be maintained and should bring happiness than stress in
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I believe that my verbal consent and how I present my body language is a huge part of how I interact with others and build relationships .A lot of unhealthy relationships have much to do with mental abuse. There are people who don't even know they are in an unhealthy relationship. I feel as though this session gave me a positive boost of self esteem to be more open minded about things.To me, communication is key to a healthy relationship. Adding healthy characteristics in my relationships will bring much more happiness in my life and cause less stress to myself and others.

Due to not being aware of my own schedule, I was not able to attend this success session. Moreover if I were to attend this event with fellow thompson scholars, I believe I would have been much more involved and more engaged with the topicin. To conclude, this session taught me the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships. I now have a better understanding of unhealthy vs healthy relationships and I can now recognize how my relationship with others have grown or fell apart. If I ever need help i can always contact UNK counseling , Care Team or the 24 hour crisis

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