Healthy Relationships, Healthy Choices

Evaluating and Identifying Healthy Relationships and Healthy Choices

Some Examples of Relationships:

• Friendship
• Parent-child
• Teacher-student
• Boyfriend-girlfriend
• Sibling
• Acquaintance

What Relationships Provide

• Emotional/Mental needs
• Social satisfactions
• Safety to freely express ourselves
• The ability to be honest and take accountability
• Being able to just have fun!
• Self development

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EVALUATE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

How do your relationships affect your life…?

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Ask yourself????

• Have certain relationships caused me to feel sad, alone, and/or scared?
• Have certain relationships caused me to experiment with drugs and/or alcohol?
• Have certain relationships caused me to be a victim of violence?

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Warning signs of someone being abused:

• Depression or loss of confidence
• Loss of interest in activities and hobbies
• Noticeable changes in eating or sleeping patterns
• Worrying about making a dating partner angry or jealous
• Excuses the dating partner’s bad behavior
• Isolation from family and friends
• Spending too much time with a dating partner
• Suspicious bruises or injuries
• Alcohol or drug use

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Warning signs of an abuser:

• Insults made to a dating partner in public or private
• Controlling behaviors (controlling how a dating partner dresses or acts, who he/she spends time with, checking in constantly)
• Personal history of aggression, bullying, or having trouble controlling anger
• Threats to hurt self or others
• Damaging a dating partner’s personal belongings
• Extreme jealousy

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Source: Choose Respect

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Healthy Relationships, Healthy Choices :In School

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Ask Yourself???

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• How do my relationships benefit me?
• Have my grades improved or fallen?
• Has my relationship with someone caused me to miss or skip school?
• Has my relationship with someone caused me to limit extracurricular activities or things I enjoy?

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Reach out to a parent or trusted adult to talk about your

situation. We are here for you!

Healthy Relationships, Healthy Choices: Emotional health

• Do I feel better or worse about myself since entering this relationship?

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• Am I more stressed, anxious, depressed?

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• Do I have trouble sleeping?

Healthy Relationships, Healthy Choices: My Physical Health

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Ask Yourself???

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• Have I had any physical injuries due to a fight with this individual?
• Have I gained or lost weight?
• Have I become physically upset because of confrontation with this individual?
• Have I been coerced into having sex?
• Have I experimented with drugs and/or alcohol

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If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Please see additional resources on the last slide.

Healthy Relationships, Healthy Choices: 6 Differences Between Healthy and Unhealthy Love

The Difference Between Healthy & Unhealthy Love

Crisis Resources

National Domestic Violence Hotline – 1-800-799-7233

Call, text LOVEIS to 1-866-331-9474, or https://www.thehotline.org/help/

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or TEXT 988, or https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Prevail (formerly Women’s Center, Youth & Family Services) – (209) 465-4878 or TEXT 988, or www.WeShallPREVAIL.org

San Joaquin County Youth Warm Line – (209) 468-3685

Crisis Text Line – Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor from anywhere in the United States,

anytime 24/7, about any type of crisis. A live, trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds, all from a secure online platform.