For Healthier Relationships: 15 Affirmations

Humans are relational beings, and most of us would like our relationships with others to be deeper, richer, more easeful, and healthy.

These affirmations are good reminders of the steps we can take–the qualities we can embody–in order to being our relationships into the best possible balance and health. Read them here:

1. I am loving and kind toward myself and others.

2. I am cooperative.

3. I give and receive the support that is needed.

4. I am fully honest with myself and others.

5. I am independent.

6. I respect the choices of others.

7. I listen with an open heart.

8. I say “no” when I need to.

9. I ask for support when I need it.

10. I am sensitive and respectful of others.

11. I am clear and express my truth in a timely manner.

12. I respond to conflict gracefully, truthfully, and easily.

13. I remember that conflict is an opportunity to learn; I welcome reconciliation.

14. I am enriched by differences.

15. I am ethical.

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Adapted from Meditations on Everything Under the Sun, by Margo Adair (New Society Publishers, 2001). Copyright (c) 2001 by Margo Adair. Reprinted by permission of New Society Publishers.
Adapted from Meditations on Everything Under the Sun, by Margo Adair (New Society Publishers, 2001).

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Cynthia B.

11:05PM PDT on May 21, 2012

ty ye we are all a work in progress learning and growing

send a green star

Kenneth D.

8:12AM PDT on Mar 19, 2012

thanks

Fiona T.

2:17PM PST on Feb 18, 2012

Thankyou

KS G.

5:19AM PST on Feb 16, 2012

Thanks for the article.

Michele W.

7:19AM PST on Nov 27, 2011

Past Member .

12:25PM PST on Mar 11, 2011

Thanks Annie! I think I will print it! I'd just want to edit this...............->"8. I say “no” when I need to. "
I think the correct phrase is "I say no when I feel to"

Melissah C.

5:01AM PST on Mar 11, 2011

Thanks

Bon L.

4:52AM PST on Mar 11, 2011

Thanks for the info.

Paul D.

3:34AM PST on Jan 20, 2011

this is impossible to believe.

Robert O.

8:33AM PST on Dec 31, 2010

Thank you. Simple advice, but sometimes I forget some of the above. But what can I say? I'm a work in progress. ;)