This document discusses the importance of personal relationships and some common relationship problems. Healthy relationships are linked to physical and mental health benefits like living longer, lower stress, and avoiding depression. Unhealthy relationships can cause issues like infidelity, sexual problems, domestic violence, lack of communication, and disrespect of boundaries. Maintaining strong relationships requires mutual respect, spending quality time together, effective communication, forgiveness, and addressing issues before they become larger problems.

1. Personal Relationship

2. Why Personal Relationships are Important?
• Research shows that healthy relationships can help you:
 Live longer.
 Deal with stress.
 Be healthier.
 Feel richer.

3. • On the other hand, low social support is linked to a
number of health consequences, such as:
 Depression
 Decreased immune function
 Higher blood pressure

4. 25 Most Common Relationships Problems
• Affairs/Infidelity/Cheating
• Sexual Issues
• Life stages
• Traumatic and/or Life-Changing Events

5. • Responses to prolonged periods of stress, such as
Work-Related Stress, long-term illness, mental health
issues, Financial Problems, problems with the
children, infertility and mny more
• Bored in or with your relationship
• Dealing with a jealous partner

6. • Having a ‘blended’ family issues
• Domestic violence
• Knowing you should not have got married in the first
place
• Lack of responsibility regarding finances, children,
health and many other issues

7. • Unrealistic expectations
• Addictions
• Excessive reliance on social media
• Lack of support
• Manipulation or over-involvement in your relationships
with family or friends
• Lack of communication

8. • Poor division of and/or one-sided lack of responsibility for
chores and tasks.
• Perceived lack of concern, care and
consideration/attentiveness
• Significant personal disappointments and traumas that
lead to a change in relationship dynamics
• Long term depression or other mental health issues
suffered by one partner or both

9. • Significant differences in opinion on how to
discipline/deal with the children
• Long-term stress
• Unsupportive partner during pregnancy and/or significant
problems after the birth of your baby.

10. Activity (Journal)
• Reflections on Personal Relationships
Write a reflection paper on your relationships, why they
are important, and how you intend to keep the good
relationships strong and healthy.

11. Nurture Your Relationships
• Connect with your family
• Practice gratitude
• Learn to forgive
• Be compassionate
• Accept others
• Create rituals together
• Spend the right amount of time together

12. 10 Rules for Finding Love and Creating Long-
Lasting Authentic Relationships
1. You must love yourself first
2. Partnering is a choice must nurture the relationship for it
to thrive
3. Creating love is a process
4. Relationships provide opportunities to grow
5. Communication is essential

13. 10 Rules for Finding Love and Creating Long-
Lasting Authentic Relationships
6. Negotiation will be required
7. Your relationship will be challenged by change
8. You must nurture the relationship for it to thrive
9. Renewal is the key to longevity
10. You will forget all this moment you fall in love

14. Keeping Healthy Relationships
In a healthy relationship, both partners:
• Are treated with kindness and respect
• Are honest with each other
• Like to spend time together
• Take an interest in things that are important to each other
• Respect one another’s emotional, physical and sexual
limits
• Can speak honestly about their feelings

15. 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

16. Basic Rights in a Relationship
• The right to live free from critism and judgment
• The right to live free from emotional and physical threat
• The right to live free from angry outburst and rage
• The right to be respectfully asked, rather than ordered
• In addition to these basic relationships rights, consider
how you can develop patience, honesty, kindness, and
respect.

17. Activity
• Poster on Basic Rights in Relationships
On a piece of long bond paper, sketch, draw, or design
a poster which shows one’s basic rights in a relationship.