14: Promoting Healthy Relationships Video
Transcript:
Chapter 14 Video
Kids texting
NARRATOR (voice over): In today’s fast-paced, high-tech, hyper-connected society, personal relationships are more important than ever.
Positive relationships help us to maintain our physical, mental, and emotional health. They satisfy our needs for trust and security, as well as our need to feel connected to and loved by other people.
Boy and girl texting back to back
NARRATOR (voice over): Strong communication skills are necessary to maintaining healthy relationships. Being able to express yourself clearly, openly, and honestly is important.
Girls texting on floor
NARRATOR (voice over): In a relationship, it’s especially important to be able to express your feelings—and to do so in a way that helps the other person understand where you are coming from while being sensitive to their feelings as well.
Images of facial expressions
NARRATOR (voice over): When communicating, pay close attention to nonverbal cues the other person is sending, such as body posture and facial expression, as these can give you better insight into their feelings and needs.
Couple holding hands
NARRATOR (voice over): A big part of maintaining a healthy relationship is being a good listener, and spending time engaging in activities that you each enjoy.
Kids at picnic table
NARRATOR (voice over): Of course, you will have many different kinds of relationships as you get older. And each one will fill different needs and also require different levels of commitment and interaction.
You may have acquaintances, casual friends, and close friends.
You might even find yourself attracted to someone you want to date. Of course, this kind of relationship comes with its own complexities.
Father and daughter at dining table
NARRATOR (voice over): Likewise, your relationship with your family members offers its own challenges and benefits.
Parents, for example, are there to protect you, educate you, and to meet your physical, mental, and emotional needs. But their rules and expectations can sometimes be difficult to deal with. That’s why it’s important to be honest and open with them as well.
NARRATOR: Yes, our modern age can sometimes make it difficult to stay close and connected to one another. Yet the importance of strong relationships to your personal well-being cannot—
Cut to two boys in a bedroom
RESPONSE 1 (suddenly interrupting and cutting off NARRATOR): Dude. My phone just died.
RESPONSE 2: Hm? Did you say something?
RESPONSE 1: Do you have a charger?
RESPONSE 2: No, sorry dude.
RESPONSE 1: Hey, you do wanna go do something?
RESPONSE 2: You mean, like, for real?
RESPONSE 2: Sure, why not?