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What are your basic rights in a relationship?

Basic Rights in a Relationship

You have a right to...

  • Have your feelings and experiences acknowledged as real.

  • Your own point of view, even if it is different from your partner’s.

  • Be respectfully asked to do something, rather than be ordered.

  • Live free from accusation and blame.

  • Live free from emotional and physical threat.

  • Live free from angry outbursts.

  • To emotional support.

  • To be heard by the other person and to be responded to with courtesy and respect.

  • Live free from criticism and judgment.

  • Be respectfully asked, not ordered.

[Adapted from Patricia Evans, 1992, The Verbally Abusive Relationship]

  

 

 

 

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Injury Violence and Prevention Program
3530 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA  90010
Tel: (213) 351-7888  FAX: (213) 351-2713
ivpp@ladhs.org

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