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A description of how love makes you feel
- Care about you
- Encourage you to be all you can be
- Encourage you to have faith and believe in yourself
- Act gentle in its way of dealing with you
- Keep secrets safe
- Show kindness
- Laugh a lot, always with, never at
- Look for goodness in you and finds it
- Make you feel glad that you’re you
- See good things in you that others have never noticed
- Speak up when you need someone to defend you
- Admit weaknesses
- Take responsibility for its own behavior
- Apologize, with effort to change
- Tell you the truth
- Think about you and your needs
- Understand your ups and downs
- Allow you to make mistakes
- Want to share in your happiness and is happy when you are happy
WHAT LOVE DOES NOT….
- Abuse you or take you for granted
- Blame you or carry grudges
- Get you into win-lose arguments
- Judge you
- Use you
- Assume how you feel
- Make you prove yourself again and again
- Need to always be right
- Punish you for being wrong
- Remember everything you have done wrong
- Undermine your confidence in yourself
- Put you down
- Make decisions that may affect you without asking
- Bully you (yelling, crying, withholding affection, privileges or money)
Reviewed April 23, 2007 T/Sexual Health/Grade 8 and 9/Youth
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