KEY SIGNS OF A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP

KEY SIGNS OF A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
Here are some ideas about that:

* You each care about the other one’s needs and wishes.
* You trust each other to use good judgment.
* You each want endlessly to get to know the other.
* You each support the other toward that person’s dreams, and you each wish for the other to succeed in building and enjoying the life they want.
* Sexuality is mutual and satisfying.
* The relationship supports the things that mean most to you, whatever they
may be. This includes that the relationship supports your other closest relationships rather than driving you away from them. * You want to spend a lot of time together, but not every second.
* You each accept responsibility for your own actions. You’re responsible for what you do, but not for what the other person does.
* You can be angry with each other without being demeaning or intimidating.
* There is gentleness and kindness and physical affection. Sex isn’t the only caring touch.
* There is rough equality of work and effort.
* You are each managing your own life and not trying to manage the other person’s or get them to manage yours.
* You laugh together.
* You are able to plan and project into the future together (financially, living arrangements, children, vacations)
* You are monogamous except by explicit and mutual agreement to do otherwise.
* You each have friends that matter to you, and you support and value each other’s friendships.
* Each of you respects the other’s boundaries.
* Neither of you tells lies to the other or keeps secrets that could affect the other person’s well-being or that involve things that the other person has a right to know.