Discover tools for creating a healthy dating relationship.

Healthy Dating Relationships

Now that you have the tools to create a healthy you, what tools create healthy relationships? Healthy dating is a choice that each partner makes. Here are some examples of healthy choices.

Respect & Understanding

Respect means treating your partner how you would like to be treated. Try to put yourself in your partner’s shoes. Take a moment to think about how you would feel when faced with your partner’s situation.

Choose to respect decisions about your partner’s body, sexual boundaries, and privacy. Consent to sex on one occasion is not consent forever.

Honesty & Trust

Choose to be candid about your intentions and willing to admit your mistakes. Honesty is accepting responsibility and being accountable for your own actions. A healthy partner is able to admit when they are wrong. Honesty and trust go hand in hand. Be secure and confident in your partner.

Choose not to be controlling and manipulative.
Choose not to stalk, harass, or constantly monitor your partner.

“A true leader has the…compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.”
– General Douglas MacArthur

Communication

Healthy relationships take partners that listen and share ideas openly. Healthy partners value each other’s opinions and listen non-judgmentally.

Choose not to shut down your partner’s ideas or make all the decisions for her/him.

Equality

Healthy partners are willing to compromise and seek solutions that work for both parties. Decisions and responsibilities that will affect both of you should be discussed together, not decided by one person.

Choose to have equal say in decisions about sexual boundaries and physical contact.

Safety

Never make the other person feel unsafe by making physical or verbal threats.

Choose to never hit, threaten, hold up fists, kick, bite, or call names.