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Alexis Gevedon
Maintaining Healthy Relationships are very important for College students. Trying to keep up with all your classes, homework, having a social life and maintaining relationships is very hard for college students, but is very important. Keeping healthy relationships with family, friends, or a significant other can be challenging at times, but having those people there to support you is important and will be needed throughout the journey of college.
What is maintaining healthy relationships?
Maintaining Healthy relationships is keeping a good relationship with people that is in your life. Having a healthy relationship Is communicating, working through the problems and respecting each other. Healthy relationships make you have more happiness and less stress.
The importance of maintaining healthy relationships
Maintaining healthy relationships is important because having a good support system while in college is very important. Not only does maintaining healthy relationships make us happier, improve our feelings of security, and provide meaning to our lives, it also affects both mental and physical health. Healthy relationships play an important role in our mental health.
10 tips for maintaining healthy relationships
- Keep expectations realistic. No one can be everything we might want him or her to be. Sometimes people disappoint us. It’s not all- or – nothing though. Healthy relationships mean accepting people as they are and not trying to change them
- Talk with each other. It can’t be said enough that communication is essential in healthy relationships.
- Take the time. Really be there
- Genuinely listen. Don’t plan to say next while you’re trying to listen. Don’t interrupt.
- Listen with your ears and not your heart. Sometimes people have emotional messages to share and weave it into their words.
- Ask questions. Ask if you think you may have missed the point. Ask friendly questions. Ask for opinions. Show you interest. Open the communication door.
- Share information. Studies show that sharing information especially helps relationships begin. Be generous in sharing yourself, but don’t overwhelm others with too much too soon.
- Be flexible. Most of us try to keep people and situations just the way we like them to be. It’s natural to feel apprehensive, even sad or angry, when people or things change and were not ready for it. Healthy relationships mean change and growth are allowed. Being flexible in college is hard because you have so much going on, but once a day set aside time for them and give all you time to the relationships.
- Take care of you. You probably hope those around you like you so may try to please them. Don’t forget to please yourself. Healthy relationships are mutual!
- Be dependable. If you make plans with someone follow through. If you have an assignment deadline, meet it. If you take a responsibility, Complete it. Healthy relationships are trustworthy
- Fight fair. Most relationships have some conflict. It o