Healthy Relationships

Your rights in a relationship.

• You have the right to a life without violence.
• You have the right not to dominate or be dominated.
• You have the right to reject unwanted attention.
• You have the right to act one way with one person and a different way with someone else.
• You have the right to change your mind whenever you want to.
• You have the right to be by yourself without changing to please others.
• You have the right to an equal relationship with anyone you choose.
• You have the right to start a relationship slowly.
• You have the right not to want physical closeness.
• You have the right to say, "I want to know you better before I get more involved."
• You have the right to change a relationship when your feelings change. You have the right to say, "We used to be close, but I want something else now."
• You have the right to dress and act seductively without promising to have sex.
• You have the right to say, "No."

From Teens Stopping Rape, distributed by United Learning, 1996.