At the beginning of a relationship, it’s normal to see the world in pink, but at other times, some people wear a mask, which prevents us from seeing the relationship exactly as it is, less healthy than it should be.
A healthy relationship must have the following characteristics:
- Trust? It is normal to feel jealous sometimes.
- Because jealousy is a natural emotion.
- But the important thing is to know how the jealous person reacts; There can be no healthy relationship without trust between partners.
? Honesty: it’s hard to trust when a partner isn’t honest; when the other is caught in a lie, trust rests on unstable ground.
Respect? In a relationship, respect means that everyone values each other, understands it, and never questions their partner’s boundaries.
? Good communication ? You should never suppress a feeling about your partner just because you don’t like to hear it; It is important that there is good communication between the two and that they openly tell each other what they think.
?Support? You have to rely on both the good and the bad times: you must be with your partner both to congratulate him on his successes and to comfort him and accompany him in difficult times.
The same? In a relationship, there must be a proper balance between the two, otherwise living together becomes a struggle for power.
Time for everyone? In a healthy relationship, concessions must be made and everyone should enjoy their free time as before they are together; they should not fail to see their friends or the activities they love.
An unhealthy relationship has disrespectful characteristics, with control and abusive actions, whether physical or verbal on the part of the couple, most of the time this situation occurs because these abusive people have grown around these kinds of behaviors, which have become normal for them, but the truth is that there is nothing normal about attitudes like these.
If the other person may feel bad knowing that their partner was abused as a child, the other person should take care of themselves, because a relationship cannot be healthy when one of them is abusive.
A warning sign of physical, verbal, or emotional abuse includes verbal insults, humiliations, and even beatings or slapping and forcing the other person to have sex.
Be aware if any of the answers to the following questions are positive:
? If the other person gets angry if you’re not available. Criticism of the way you dress. Don’t let yourself go out or chat with friends. It doesn’t allow you to do the activities you love. When you’re angry, you raise your hand. Try to force yourself to have sex when you don’t want to.
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