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| Tips for Boys |
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• It's important for you to choose someone who likes you for who you are and to be yourself in that relationship, no matter if it’s a girlfriend or your best friend. Feeling free to be yourself can be difficult to learn to do especially when we are getting so many messages from outside ourselves about what a real man is. Learn to be true to yourself. • If you treat others equally, you will be treated equally. When in a relationship, ask your girlfriend her opinion. Listen to her and take what she says seriously. This shows you respect her and her mind. Speak up when you hear someone making jokes about girls, putting them down. It is outdated behaviour to treat girls and women disrespectfully. • Being a friend to your girlfriend is the best way to be in a relationship. Friends help each other. They listen and are there when their friend needs help. Take the time to spend time together and get to know each other. • Speak out. Relationships take lots of communication and this flow of communication should feel equal and respectful and that includes listening to each other and not discounting what the other says. • Disagreements are part of life. They are one way we let people know who we are. We are all different and cannot always get along. Arguments can be resolved without yelling or blaming. Try to listen to each other and work things out together. • It’s important for you and your girlfriend to have your own life and activities apart from each other. As we get older, this continues to be important as we are individuals at heart and need time alone, with our friends, or engaged in activities which stimulate our development. |
