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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 boyfriend 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 woman is. Learn to be true to yourself.
• Expect to be treated equally. Be careful to hang out with people who talk about or show equality to girls.
• Being a friend to your boyfriend is the best way to be in a relationship. Friends help one another, they listen and are there when their friend needs help.
• Speak out. Relationships take lots of communication and this flow of communication should feel equal and respectful including 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 boyfriend 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.
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