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Foundations For Building Healthy Relationships

Building Healthy Relationships

Not as some think healthy relationships are those that are happy and positive all the time, because the fact is not always a positive relationship and not always a negative relationship, so what are healthy and toxic relationships? That’s what we’ll know in that article.

What are healthy relationships?

Healthy relationships include honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners and the possibility of making decisions together, and if the relationship ends with respect and responsibility.

What are the three c’s of healthy relationships?

  1. Communication: Feel comfortable expressing your opinions and concerns to your partner so always be careful to communicate well with your partner.
  2. commitment: Responsibility must be felt towards the relationship, respect the wishes and feelings of the partner
  3. compromise: when there are differences of views and Trying to reach common ground in disagreements so that the relationship prevails with respect and understanding.

Signs of toxic relationships:

  1. Lack of support and encouragement from the other side. Healthy relationships are based on a mutual desire to see the other succeed in several aspects of life, but when each achievement becomes a competition, it becomes a toxic relationship.
  2. Lack of good communication between the two partners, rather than kindness and mutual respect, most conversations are filled with irony and criticism.
  3. Mistrust of the other side is manifested in the extreme jealousy of the partner and this certainly leads to toxic relationships.
  4. A sense of deliberate neglect and exploitation of the other party’s needs commensurate with its interests.
  5. Feeling alienated from yourself, your interests and your friends and turning it into just what pleases the other partner.
  6. Living in a constant spiral of anger, criticism and ridicule of the other side’s actions all generates toxic relationships.

Tips for building healthy relationships:

  1. Know yourself and your desires to understand your needs from the other side
  2. Communicate well with the partner and express your feelings and needs openly and clearly to each other.
  3. Accept disagreements, try to exercise restraint at this time and not say something embarrassing that might anger the other side.
  4. Continuously support and encourage the partner.
  5. Appreciation and respect for the other party.
  6. In the case that disputes increase to the extent that your marital life is affected, you must go to a psychiatrist or marriage consultant to help reach a common ground and build a healthy relationship.

To build a healthy relationship with your partner with love and stability, you can communicate with Dr. Mona Reda, a psychiatrist and sex therapist.

Resources:
Top tips on building and maintaining healthy relationships
Is Your Relationship Toxic?
What Does a Healthy Relationship Look Like?

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