Healthy relationships (with friends, family members and intimate partners) can support recovery.
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Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships
Adapted from The Red Flag Campaign Campus Planning Guide From: Choose Respect Action Kit, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Healthy
relationships (with friends, family members and intimate partners) can support
recovery. Recognizing and identifying patterns in relationships which are
unhealthy is often an important part of recovery.
People in healthy relationships respect each other. They can talk honestly and freely to each other and share power and
control over decisions. They trust and support each other and respect each other’s
independence. In contrast, an unhealthy relationship is unbalanced. One partner (a person in the relationship) tries to control
the other.
1.
Use the words in the first chart below to match with
their description in the chart on the second page.
Add the correct word in the space
near the description and then put an asterisk (*) beside the words which
describe characteristics of a healthy relationship. (see example
on the chart)
