Building Relationships that are Happy, Healthy and

Transcript:Building Relationships that are Happy, Healthy and:
Building Relationships that are Happy, Healthy and Satisfying A strong, healthy relationship can be one of the best supports in your life. Good relationships improve all aspects of your life, strengthening your health, your mind, and your connections with others. How Confident Are You? Feeling good about yourself and how you look can boost your self-confidence. Wear the clothes you want – that you feel comfortable in. Wear make up if you want to. Choose nice perfume or body spray, deodorant, shampoo. Be generous with compliments. Be interested in your friends. Be good at something. Only answer questions you want to about your disability. Respect the opinions of others. Be assertive and think about getting what you want. Be proud of who you are. Make and be involved in decisions that affect your life. Learn about and manage your condition as you get older. Personal care - Intimate personal care is anecessary part of some disabled people’s lives. Many young people feel self-conscious about the way they look as their bodies grow and change and may begin to feel shy of others seeing their body. This is perfectly normal. You need to feel happy and comfortable with who helps with personal care and have confidence in them. Developing Sexual Relationships Being friends, making each other laugh and knowing you can trust each other are all very important aspects of a loving relationship. Sex is usually a small part of this wider picture. Sexual desires and behaviour are normal and exciting Establishing a Relationship Everyone’s relationship is unique, and people come together for many different reasons. But there are some things that good relationships have in common. Knowing the basic principles of healthy relationships helps keep them meaningful, fulfilling and exciting in both happy times and sad. What makes a healthy love relationship? Staying Involved With Each Other Some relationships get stuck in peaceful coexistence, but without truly relating to each other and working together. While it may seem stable on the surface, lack of involvement and communication increases distance. When you need to talk about something important, the connection and understanding may no longer be there. Getting Through Conflict. Some couples talk things out quietly, while others may raise their voices and passionately disagree. The key in a strong relationship, though, is not to be fearful of conflict. You need to be safe to express things that bother you without