Red Flag or Not?
Tries to Make you Feel Bad About Yourself
Red Flag!
Healthy relationships encourage you to be genuine.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner is curious who one of your Instagram followers is.
Respectful!
This shows genuine curiosity and is not pushing a boundary.
Supports your hobbies, dreams, and goals.
Healthy Relationship!
Caring individuals support our interests.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner asks you to give them another chance when they mess up and cause a rupture in trust.
Respectful!
A caring individual understands when they have caused hurt and tries to repair a relationship.
Pressures you not to listen to your parents.
Red Flag!
Someone who purposely is encouraging conflict in your relationships can be considered a toxic individual.
Calling and Texting you all the time.
Red Flag!
Healthy Relationships encourage you to have space for self-care.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner asks if you are interested in dating/hanging out with anyone else.
Respectful!
Healthy relationships allow for asking questions for clarity.
Listens to you when you say you don't want to do something.
Healthy Relationship!
Caring individuals respect your boundaries.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner insists that you hand over your phone and/or passwords to prove that you are not interested in anyone else or dating anyone else.
Not Respectful!
This action is not respectful of personal boundaries and toxic.
Wants to spend all their time with you.
Red Flag.
A caring individual allows you to have space and supports you connecting with a variety of people. They don't put their needs before yours.
Healthy Relationship!
A caring individual will notice your strengths.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner needs to know who ALL your Instagram followers are and then makes you block people.
Not Respectful!
Healthy boundaries include having trust to have your own interests without needing to be investigated by anyone else.
Gets mad when you don't respond immediately to texts and phone calls.
Red Flag!
Caring individuals allow you to have boundaries for self-care.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner makes jokes with you to lighten the mood and help you feel at ease about awkward topics.
Respectful!
Healthy relationships include humor and laughter when trust is strong.
Makes you feel unsafe and scared.
Red Flag!
A caring individual shows empathy and respects your emotions. They would not risk the trust in the relationship.
Wants to know what you are doing all the time.
Red Flag!
A caring individual can have concern if you are unsafe, but consistently wanting to know where you are or what you are doing is not respectful of boundaries.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner puts your down or humiliates you publicly.
Not Respectful!
Healthy relationships include respect for someone's physical and emotional boundaries.
Getting jealous when you talk with other people or have other friends besides them.
Red Flag!
Caring individuals understand that we can connect with multiple people and still have energy for them.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner says that they will harm themselves or do something "stupid" if you leave them.
Not Respectful.
Relationships grow and change. Sometimes people grow apart. A healthy relationship allows someone to make choices without threats or fear.
Gets physically aggressive or engages in name-calling and insults.
Red Flag!
A caring individual allows us to feel comfortable and trusting. They will respect our physical and emotional boundaries.
Trusts you and doesn't get jealous often.
Healthy Relationship.
Caring individuals respect our choice to be friends and bond with multiple people.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner tells you that they love you so much that they'd spill your secrets if you ever broke up with them.
Not respectful!
Threats of emotional or physical harm are toxic and don't support healthy boundaries.
Willing to talk and work through problems.
Healthy Relationship!
Caring individuals understand that working through disagreements can strengthen a relationship.
Is this respectful or not?
A friend/partner shares how much they care about you. (Ex. "I love you, you're the best, etc.")
Respectful!
Healthy Relationships include sharing your care and concern with words and actions.
Encourages you to do positive things that make you happy.
Healthy Relationship.
A caring individual supports our interests and positive choices.