Healthy Relationships

What is a healthy relationship?

A healthy, loving relationship means that you:

• Trust one another
• Respect each other's opinions, friends, family and belongings
• Are able to be yourself
• Support each other's goals, values and interests
• Have open communication
• Encourage each other to do and be your best

Everyone deserves to be respected, valued, and to feel safe and secure in their relationship.

What is not a healthy relationship?

An unhealthy relationship involves:

• One person trying to exert power and control over another
• Physical, emotional, verbal, financial or sexual abuse 
• The use of fear or intimidation to control how someone talks, acts and thinks both now and in the future
• Isolation/exclusion from family and friends

Abuse is never okay and no one ever deserves to be abused.

For more information, visit Neighbours, Friends and Families or our Domestic Violence page.