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Rights and responsibilities in healthy relationships
January 14, 2015
Posted by Rachel Mallory
Relationships come up at some point for almost every client that we work with. Often people have questions about what is reasonable and healthy to expect, both from their partner (or parent, or adult child, or friend...) and in their own behaviour. Here's one way to look at it:
Rights and Responsibilities in Relationships
Right: To speak up
Responsibility:To listen
Right:To take
Responsibility:To give
Right: To have problems
Responsibility: To comfort
Right:To work
Responsibility:To do your best
Right:To make mistakes
Responsibility:To correct your mistakes
Right:To laugh
Responsibility:To make others happy
Right: To have friends
Responsibility:To be a friend
Right: To criticise
Responsibility:To praise
Right:To have your efforts rewarded
Responsibility:To reward others’ efforts
Right: To independence
Responsibility:To be dependable
Right: To cry
Responsibility: To dry tears
Right: To be loved
Responsibility: To love others
From Melodie Chenevert, Special Techniques in Assertiveness Training: STAT (St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1988, p.64) – as cited in Managing Pain Before it Manages You, Caudill, M.A., New York: Guilford Press, 2002, p. 143.
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