Healthy Vs. Unhealthy Relationships
Healthy Love:
• Allows for individuality
• Brings out partners’ best qualities
• Accepts endings
• Experiences openness to change
• Invites growth in the partner
• Experiences true intimacy
• Finds pleasure in giving & receiving
• Does not try to change partner
• Does not try to control partner
• Accepts limitations of self & partner
• Does not seek unconditional love
• Has individual high self-esteem
• Trusts the memory of the partner
• Expresses feelings spontaneously
• Welcomes affection and closeness
• Believes in equality
Unhealthy Love:
• Feelings consumed in the relationship
• Extremely afraid to let go
• Excessive fear of risk or change
• Little individual growth
• Few truly intimate experiences
• Playing mind games
• Trying to get something by giving
• Trying to change people
• Needing others to feel secure & happy
• Refusing to commit
• Repeatedly experience of negative feelings
• Being afraid of affection & closeness
• Cares with excessive detachment
• Frequent playing of “power games”
• Looking to others for self-worth
“Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but they are always perfect for you.”
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