The document discusses the importance of personal relationships and outlines the types—family, friends, and partnerships. It emphasizes the basic rights in a relationship, signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships, and ways to become responsible partners through communication, support, and conflict resolution. Key aspects include the benefits of personal relationships for well-being and health, highlighting the necessity of mutual respect and emotional safety.

1. Building and
Maintaining
Relationships

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Discuss an understanding of teen-age relationships,
including the acceptable and unacceptable
expressions of attractions .
Express his/her ways of showing attraction, love, and
commitment.
Identify ways to become responsible in a relationship.

3. Love is
…

4. LOVE
•Is an extreme feelings of
attachments or affection to
someone.

5. Personal
Relationships
What is Personal Relationship?
Why personal relationships are important?
Ways to Become Responsible in a Relationshi

6. What Are Personal Relationships?
• close connections between people, formed
by emotional bonds and interactions.

7. 3 KINDS OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
1.Family
2.Friends
3.Partnership

8. Family
• The Bureau of the Census defines family as "two or more
persons who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption
and who live together as one household."
• Some typical characteristics of a family are support,
mutual trust, regular interactions, shared beliefs and
values, security, and a sense of community.

9. Friends
• A friendship can be thought of as a close tie between
two people that is often built upon mutual experiences,
shared interests, proximity, and emotional bonding.
• Friends are able to turn to each other in times of need.

10. Partnership
• close relationships formed between two people
that are built upon affection, trust, intimacy, and
romantic love.
• We usually experience this kind of relationship
with only one person at a time

11. Basic Rights in a Relationship
• The right to emotional support
• The right to be heard by the other and to respond
• The right to have your own point of view, even if this differs from your partner's
• The right to have your feelings and experiences acknowledged as real
• The right to live free from accusation and blame
• The right to live free from criticism and judgment
• The right to live free from emotional and physical threat
• The right to live free from angry outbursts and rage
• The right to be respectfully asked, rather than ordered

12. Patience Honesty
Kindness Respect

13. Why Personal Relationships Are Important?
• Live longer
• Deal with stress
• Be healthier
• Feel richer
low social support
Depression
Higher blood pressure
Decreased immune function

14. Ways to Become a
Responsible in a
Relationship
Learn to
forgive
Be
compassi
onate
Practice
gratitude
Accept
others
Spend the
right amount
of time
together
Create
rituals
together
Connect
with your
family

15. Signs of Healthy Relationship
• Mutual respect
• Trust
• Honesty
• Support
• Fairness/equality
• Separate identities
• Good communication
• A sense of playfulness/fondness

16. UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
• Put one person before the other by neglecting yourself or your partner
• Feel pressure to change who you are for the other person
• Feel worried when you disagree with the other person
• Feel pressure to quit activities you usually/used to enjoy
• Pressure the other person into agreeing with you or changing to suit you
better

17. • Notice one of you has to justify your actions (e.g., where you go, who
you see)
• Notice one partner feels obligated to have sex or has been forced
• Have a lack of privacy, and may be forced to share everything with the
other person
• You or your partner refuse to use safer sex methods
• Notice arguments are not settled fairly

18. • Experience yelling or physical violence during an argument
• Attempt to control or manipulate each other
• Notice your partner attempts to controls how you dress and criticizes
your behaviors
• Do not make time to spend with one another
• Have no common friends, or have a lack of respect for each others’
friends and family

19. • Notice an unequal control of resources (e.g., food, money, home, car, etc.)
• Experience a lack of fairness and equality
• Accept influence. Relationships are give and take; allowing your partner to
influence you is important; this can be especially difficult for some men.
• Resolve conflict fairly: Fighting is part of even healthy relationships; the
difference is how the conflict is handled. Fighting fairly is an important skill
you help you have healthier relationships

21. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!