QUICK LINKS TO OTHER SERVICES
Individual
Counselling
Relationship
Counselling
Emotional Regulation
Workshops
Copyright
2009 Toni McLean
|
Healthy Relationship
»
Loving, mutually respectful communication and behaviour
»
A balance between the needs of the individuals and the needs of the relationship
»
A balance between togetherness and separateness
»
Automatically assuming the best about your partner
»
Mutual support and encouragement
»
Equality in decision-making
»
Mutual trust and intimacy
»
Freedom from anxiety and fear when with your partner
Unhealthy Relationship
»
Feeling like you just keep having the same old arguments
» Increasingly communicating disrespectfully with each other
»
Spending all of your free time with your partner
»
Spending no free time with your partner
»
One partner sacrificing friends or family for the sake of the other
»
One person making most of the decisions without considering the other partner
» One person making choices and decisions for the other
»
Constantly feeling anxious or angry when you’re with your partner
»
Arguments that escalate into pushing and shoving or other acts of aggression
Abusive Relationship
One or both partner(s):
» Tells the other who to have as friends or isolates the other from family or friends
» Gets jealous; or always wants to know where the other has been
» Checks the other’s phone, mail and email
» Puts the other down and makes the other feel worthless
» Readily yells and screams at the other
» Threatens or frightens the other
» Uses physical violence to get what s/he wants
» Coerces the other to have sex or perform unwanted sexual acts
|
RECENT
ARTICLES
Relationship
Dances. Pursuers and Distancers. Part A. Pursuers
Domineering
Teenagers. Are Parents Losing
the Battle?
Walking on Egg Shells Assessment
USEFUL LINKS
|