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This quality means treating another person with care and valuing their feelings, choices, and ideas.
What is respect?
This communication skill means listening carefully, not interrupting, and trying to understand the other person’s point of view.
What is active listening?
This word describes a personal limit about what feels comfortable, safe, or okay.
What is a boundary?
Repeatedly insulting, threatening, or intimidating someone is an example of this harmful behavior.
What is emotional or verbal abuse?
Friends can encourage respectful choices, or pressure someone toward unhealthy choices. This is an example of this kind of influence.
What is peer influence?
In a healthy relationship, both people can be themselves and keep friendships, interests, and activities of their own.
What is mutual respect?
A statement that begins with “I feel…” and explains your perspective without blaming is often called this.
What is an “I” statement?
A person has this right when they choose not to take part in something they do not want to do.
What is the right to refuse, or the right to say no?
A pattern of checking someone’s location, demanding passwords, or deciding who they may talk to can be a warning sign of this.
What is controlling behavior?
Family, culture, and environment can shape a person’s beliefs about relationships, but people can still make choices that support respect and safety.
What are influences on relationships?
This kind of relationship allows both people to share thoughts and feelings without fear of being mocked or punished.
What is a safe and supportive relationship?
A useful first step in solving a conflict is to describe the issue clearly and calmly. This is sometimes called doing this.
What is outlining the conflict?
For consent to be meaningful, it must be freely given, clear, and this—not assumed from silence or pressure.
What is voluntary?
Bullying, dating violence, and abuse can affect a person’s emotional, social, and this kind of health.
What is physical health?
A post or video may show unrealistic ideas about romance. It is wise to compare media messages with these real-life qualities.
What are respect, communication, consent, and mutual care?
A person who celebrates your successes rather than trying to control your choices is showing this healthy quality.
What is support?
When a disagreement gets heated, taking a respectful break and returning to the conversation later is one way to do this.
What is manage conflict safely?
If someone keeps pressuring another person to do an unwanted activity after they have said no, the person should tell this kind of person.
Who is a trusted adult?
If a relationship makes someone feel unsafe, pressured, or controlled, a helpful next step is to tell this trusted person at school or in their life.
Who is a trusted adult, such as a school counselor?
Sharing someone’s private messages, photos, or personal information without permission can harm trust and violate this.
What is privacy?
When you notice a pattern of respect, trust, honest communication, and room for each person’s choices, these are signs of this type of relationship.
What is a healthy relationship?
After brainstorming possible solutions, people can choose one, try it, and later check whether it helped. This is an example of this approach.
What is a conflict-resolution process?
A friend says, “I don’t want to share my password.” The respectful response is to accept this personal limit and do this.
What is stop asking and respect the boundary?
A friend shares that someone is being hurt or threatened. You should listen without blame, avoid promising secrecy, and do this next.
What is help them connect with a trusted adult or school support person?
An online match asks for private information and wants to meet secretly. A safer response is to stop engaging and tell this kind of person.
Who is a trusted adult?