RELATIONSHIPS

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1. There's no need for education with regard to relationships, everybody instinctively knows how to behave and what to do. The evidence would seem to suggest that people who are willing to learn the ‘skills of communication’ (i.e. emotional honesty, listening, etc.), have more successful relationships.


2. If a boy or girl doesn't want to have sex, there must be something wrong with them. Many happy, healthy people choose to avoid sexual intercourse until they are in a position to commit himself or herself wholeheartedly to their life partner.


3. Once there's no pregnancy, then no one gets hurt. Sex outside a lasting committed relationship, that doesn’t result in pregnancy can still cause untold emotional trauma, heartbreak, a variety of sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS.


4. Once you look good to the lads or the girls nothing else matters much. A. Contentment and happiness is mostly associated with self-love which is only developed when we connect with our personal feelings and thoughts enquiring what is right and wrong for us. Continually avoiding personal responsibility for our actions can lead to mental illness later on.


5. You’re only a real man or a woman when you’ve had sex. Until then you are immature and inexperienced. A. It can take more of a man or a woman to stand up to peer pressure and say ‘no’ to sex. To be strong in our self-belief is very mature. It gives us invaluable life-experience in finding similar friends and growth in self-contentment.


6. If you’re not willing to have sex with you boy/girl friend obviously you don’t really love them. A. Keeping in mind each other's future in marriage with a family can be a greater love than just taking all the pleasure you can get for now. Real love is gentle, kind, affectionate, respectful, fun, patient, thinking the good and not giving into jealousy etc.


7. It’s easy to be honest and just say ‘no’ in a relationship when you don’t want sex. When somebody continually pressurises the other for sex it is difficult to say ‘no’. Sometimes, the only way out is to avoid private situations that would give the opportunity to give in. It may be better to part ways and find somebody more like-minded.