Understanding Healthy Relationships
Autor: Christine Esquivel • October 3, 2015 • Essay • 973 Words (4 Pages) • 909 Views
Understanding Healthy Relationships
Christine Garrison, Michelle Hodge, Laurie Smith, and Heather Vanarsdale
BSHS/385
June 22, 2015
University of Phoenix
Understanding Healthy Relationships
"Healthy relationships are characterized by respect, sharing, and trust. They primarily based on the belief that both partners are equal, that the power and control in the relationship shared equally." (bpdfamily.com, 2014). Understanding what forms a healthy relationship is an important aspect that comes with being a Human Services worker. We must know what to look for and know what it is that constitutes a healthy relationship. The information holds true of all types of relationships between two people. In this paper, we will be discussing healthy relationships of all types. The beginning with the characteristics of intimate relationships, from there we will also discuss friends and family relationships, potential barriers to forming intimate relationships, and effective communication in relationships.
“Characteristics of intimate relationships.”
Intimate relationships do not always mean a romantic relationship. The meaning of an intimate relationship means a deep emotional closeness to another individual. The most common characteristics of an intimate relations ship start with a deep commitment to each other. The second of these common characteristics is foster interdependence this is when people rely on each other for support. The third is continuous investment the can be an emotional investment or just taking time for one another. The final is the spark dialectical tensions. "We begin to develop a network of intimate relationships that help us meet our personal needs of belonging and security."(Films Media Group, 1998)
Dialectical tensions have to do with having with having two desirable goals as well as values. Many individuals who are in intimate relationships work together for a common goal and work together to reach those goals. People with an intimate relationship share many experiences together negative and positive throughout their times together.
“Friends and family relationships.”
“A friend is one who knows you as you are…understands where you’ve been…accepts who you’ve become…and still invites you to grow.” (Films Media Group, 1998 Author unknown) Our understanding of relationships is something that we learned early on from those who were the biggest influences in our lives. Saying this, we can agree that it is the relationships that we forge through life that makes us who we are.
We have friends that have outlived our marriages, and yet most of our friends are those we rarely see. With personal experience, I can say that I have friends that I consider to be members of our family in our lives. Some of our friends are closer to us than our families are to us because they are more honest when we need them to be. Most of us will forgive our friends and loved ones as they forgive us for who we are. The true meaning of what relationship stands for in our lives. Regardless of the type of intimate relationship we have, it is these intimate relationships in which we put most of our effort into relationships.
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