Positive, healthy relationships, with good treatment

Positive, healthy relationships, with good treatment.

It is important to create couple relationships with egalitarian dynamics based on connection and not with dynamics of power, submission and domination. But what do we mean by a healthy, positive and good relationship?

In general terms, healthy or positive relationships are those in which the people involved can feel safe, valued and respected, can set their limits and understand their own and other people’s needs. This comes from mutual trust, transparency, honesty, good communication, understanding and calmness, assertiveness and empathy during discussions.

A relationship in which there are only arguments and conflicts and in which these are not resolved or are resolved violently is not a positive relationship. However, just because there are no arguments in a relationship does not necessarily mean that it is a positive relationship. Discussions, managed in an empathetic and assertive manner, can help shape relationships and lay the desired foundations.

On the other hand, good treatment would be the opposite of abuse. We can say that good treatment is the set of loving and respectful actions that are carried out within a relationship aimed at recognizing, caring for and valuing the other person(s).