How to Develop a Healthy Relationship or Friendship

Guard Your Heart

An invisible inscription is etched on your heart that reads, "GUARD AT ALL COST".

You and your heart are very valuable and of great worth.

Knowing this helps when developing friendships and building healthy relationships.

When forgetting/ignoring this invisible inscription on your heart, you may experience some of the following unpleasant emotions if your developing friendship seems toxic or you are trying to build a healthy relationship with someone who continues to hurt you.

Possible negative emotions:
1. Bitterness, 2. Fear, 3. Lack of Fulfillment, 4. Loneliness, 5. Low Self Esteem, 6. Resentment, 7. Used & Abused

Such a high price to pay for simply opening up your heart too quickly to those who have not proven themselves deserving-those who cunningly give you crumbs of stolen moments and hurried bits of attention just to get what they want from you instead of trying to build a healthy relationship or develop a solid friendship to be treasured.

Living your life knowing your value and worth are vital as you interact with others.

Below you will find ways to learn to guard your heart when developing friendships and building healthy relationships...

Things You'll Need

• Self care
• Know your value & worth
• Friendships development knowledge
• Relationship building skills

Instructions

1. 

   When communicating with people you want to develop a friendship or a healthy relationship with and they continue to pull away from you instead of drawing closer to get to know you-GUARD YOUR HEART.

2. 

   If you and another person ONLY get together when there is a happenstance bumping into each other and you all never plan time to spend together-even though consensual-GUARD YOUR HEART as you determine if this IS a person you want to open up to pursue a developing friendship or healthy relationship.

3. 

   If you have romantic feelings for a person who is still in a relationship with someone else-no matter how bad they claim the relationship to be-GUARD YOUR HEART until they resolve their existing relationship issues.

4. 

   When interacting with someone where the focus is on the sexual acts of your developing friendship or budding relationship, GUARD YOUR HEART as you decide if this is a person you want to share more aspects of your life with especially since "Friends With Benefits" (FWB) is an acceptable part of our culture.

5. 

   If sex is ALL you genuinely like with this person-GUARD YOUR HEART because you have already determined that you do not want to take steps in developing a relationship or building a more healthy relationship with this person that is beyond sex.

6. 

   Sometimes we feel hurt by others or feel they have hurt us, could it simply be that we did not GUARD OUR HEARTS-knowing our value and worth?

7. 

   People flow in and out of our lives daily.

   It is up to us to determine if we want to develop friendships or build healthy relationships with them or not.

   It is wise of us to be selective when choosing to share our valuable gifts-ourselves and our precious hearts-with them.

   Assessing developing friendships as we go and gauging budding relationships are vital keys to help us GURARD OUR HEARTS-allowing only those who prove themselves deserving to enter.

   Remember, GUARD YOUR HEART at all cost-your heart is very valuable and YOU are so totally worth it.

Resources

• Knowing Your Value
• Building Healthy Relationships
• Importance of Knowing Your Worth
• How to Grow a Friend
• How to Foster Healthy Relationships with Significant Others
• Heal My Broken Heart
• How to Mend a Broken Heart
• Help Your Kids Build the Right Kind of Friendships