1. HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIPS

2. RELATIONSHIPS
• Relationship: a bond or connection you have with
other people
• Acquaintance
• Casual Friend
• Friend
• Best Friend
• Boyfriend/Girlfriend
• Marriage
• Family
• Parent
• Child
• Sibling

3. ACCORDING TO ABRAHAM MASLOW…
• Everyone needs to be loved and to belong.
• Each of us also needs to feel
safe, secure, valued, and recognized.
• Relationships provide these basic human needs

4. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS CAN…
• Help you become a better person
• Give you someone to talk to when you’re having
problems
• Help relieve stress
• Make life more enjoyable

5. ROLES
• Role: a part you play in many relationships

6. BRAD PITT VIDEO CLIPS
• Brad Pitt is just one person, but he has played many
different roles. Is that true for all of us?
• Do we all play different roles in the relationships we
have throughout our lives?
• Do the roles we play ever change?

7. MRS. EVANS’S ROLES
• Wife • Coach
• Sister • Church Member
• Daughter • Cook
• Friend • Maid
• Student • Tenant
• Teacher
• Aunt

8. What are roles you play?

9. INGREDIENTS FOR A HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIP
• Self Respect
• Respect for Others

10. RESPECT FOR OTHERS
• Listen to other people
• Be considerate of other’s feelings
• Develop mutual trust
• Be realistic in your expectations

11. TRAITS OF HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
• Mutual Respect
• Treat others with respect, they’ll respect you in return
• Caring
• Treat others with kindness and consideration.
• Be empathetic
• Honesty
• Honest and open with others, rather than concealing
thoughts, feelings or actions
• Commitment
• Contribute to the relationship and work to keep it strong,
may require sacrifices.

12. CHARACTER AND RELATIONSHIPS
• Trustworthiness: • Caring:
• Doing what you say • Sympathy, empathy
you will do • Citizenship:
• Responsibility: • Helping neighbors,
• borrow something shoveling walks etc.
breaks you replace it. • Respect:
• Fairness: • Listen when someone
• -taking turns, sharing is talking,

13. UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS
Stereotyping: making an exaggerated or
oversimplified judgments about people who
belong to a certain group.
Prejudice: an unfair opinion or judgment of a
particular group of people.
Bullying: deliberately harming or threatening
other people who cannot easily defend
themselves.
Hazing: making others perform certain tasks in
order to join the group.

14. SKILLS FOR A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
• Communication
• Exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or
more people.
• Cooperation
• Working together for the good of all
• Compromise
• Problem-solving method in which each participant gives up
something to reach a solution that satisfies everyone.
• Parents Cooperation/Compromise Challenge

15. RELATIONSHIP BANK ACCOUNT
 We have a different bank account
with every person we have a
relationship with.
 The quality of our relationships
depends on how many deposits
and withdrawals we make in each
account.
 When there are significant “funds”
in our bank accounts, an
occasional withdrawal will not
damage the relationship.
 Minimize withdrawals and make
generous deposits on a regular
basis.
 Activity