00:00Intimacy, security, respect, good communication, a sense of being valued.
00:06These are some of the things that most people would agree
00:09make for healthy relationships.
00:11And researchers would agree, too.
00:13There's a large body of literature on romantic relationships
00:16that's identified the features of healthy relationships,
00:19and the list I just provided contains many of them.
00:23Researchers also agree on what makes for unhealthy relationships,
00:27things like fighting so much that you just can't work things out,
00:31not being able to go to your partner for support when you need it,
00:35contempt, criticism, hostility, violence.
00:39When these problems happen in relationships,
00:42they can cause significant unhappiness,
00:44they can lead to the end of relationships and divorce,
00:48and they can literally make people physically and emotionally sick.
00:52This is why it's so critical that people have healthy relationships.
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