1. Healthy Relationships

2. Building Healthy Relationships: Foundations for a Good Relationship
A good relationship is built on a solid foundation of:
Love
Respect
Honesty
Communication
Trust
Friendship
Commitment

3. Building Healthy Relationships: Foundations for a Good Relationship
Characteristics of a healthy relationship:
Comfortable with each other (able to be themselves)
Have mutual respect and help each other (bring out the best in each other)
Support each other (work together)
Don’t attempt to change or control the other person (respect their partner for who they are)
Trust and honesty
Enjoy each other’s company (have fun together)
Accept the good and the bad

4. Spiritual Consequences of Being Sexually Active
Sex is giving the gift of yourself to another person.
The sexual self has a spiritual nature.
Sex without spirituality:
Involves basic animal instincts rather than love
Does not acknowledge the deep desire to love and be loved
Can make people suspicious of the world and future relationships
Can cause suffering through emotional and spiritual harm
Allows people to be used and treated as objects
Does not respect the dignity of the human person

5. Three Kinds of Friendship
Utilitarian: you are friends with a person for what they can give you.
Common Interest: you are friends because you share an interest (eg. sport, music )
The Good of the Other: you seek the best for the other person, you don’t want bad things to happen to them and you put their needs before your own.

6. The Difference Between Love and Lust
In groups complete The Difference Between Love and Lust table