Healthy Relationship Signs
- Appropriate mutual trust
- Your values and beliefs are respected
- Revealing a little of yourself at a time
- Allow yourself to love another unconditionally
- Allowing intimacy to occur in a healthy amount of time
- Boundaries of both parties is respected
- Able to debate an issue without negative implications
- Acknowledgement and respect of others feelings
- Noticing when someone invades your boundaries
- No desire to change or manipulate the other person
- You are accepted exactly as you are
- Balance in all areas of your life
- Communicate feelings without fear of judgement
- No need for "those little white lies" we may tell
- Allowing others in your life without expectations
- Communicate your needs and boundaries
- Defining yourself for yourself
- Seek advice from others for consideration only
- Direct yourself and your life
- Give gifts without expectation
- Accept gifts without expectations
- Financial Independence
- No need to keep score
Unhealthy Relationship Signs
- Assuming others will know how you feel
- Accepting gifts you don't want
- Not noticing when someone displays inappropriate behaviour
- Going against your personal values to please others
- Punishing the other person
- Acting on first impulse to get closer
- Being overwhelmed by a person-obessive
- Falling with anyone who reaches out
- Falling in love with someone you just met
- Getting very intimate at first meeting
- Trusting no one-Trusting everyone
- Revealing everything about yourself at first meeting
- Give or receive from others with expectation
- Taking as much as you can from the other person
- Allowing someone to take as much as they can from you
- Letting others direct your life
- Believing others can anticipate your needs
- Expecting others to fill your needs automatically
- Falling apart so someone will take care of you
- Self abuse
- Emotional or physical abuse
- Substance abuse