Healthy relationship between two partners stems from love and mutual respect for each other. One needs to show mutual respect.
Value each other’s opinions.
Trust each other.
Support each other’s rights and goals.
Need to be honest and admit if wrong.
Seek solutions to conflict those are mutually satisfactory.
Willingness to compromise.
Have open communication.
Be responsible parents and share parental responsibilities.
Make family and financial decisions together.
Make sure both are benefited from financial arrangements.
Feel safe and comfortable with each other.
Able to express freely with each other.
Unhealthy Relationships
In contrast these behaviors or attitudes foster an unhealthy relationships.
Making threatening actions and gestures, destroying property, abuse pets and displaying weapons.
Making and/or carrying out threats to hurt the woman; threatening to leave her, commit suicide, or report her to welfare authorities; make her do illegal acts.
Putting a woman down and making her feel badly about herself, humiliate her, making her feel guilty.
Controlling what a woman does, who she sees and talks to, what she reads, and where she goes; limiting her outside involvement.
Using children to relay messages; threatening to take children away.
Treating a woman like a servant and making all the major decisions.
Preventing her from getting or keeping a job, making her ask for money; taking her money; or giving her an allowance.
Making light of the abuse, deny abuse, and blaming the woman herself for the abuse.
