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Dating Relationships & Healthy Sexuality

+Love is…

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never dies.”

- 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

+Relationships

God created us male and female in order to: Procreate (have children) Be companions for one another

God’s desire is that we “give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage” (1 Corinthians 6:9) in order to bring him joy.

However, with approximately 50% of marriages in society ending in divorce, we must stop and ask why people are unable to commit to one another.

+Brainstorming

WHY DO

TEENAGERS

DATE?

+Types of Relationships

Dating relationships can be both healthy and unhealthy.

In your groups, brainstorm characteristics of healthy and unhealthy teenage relationships using the chart provided

Behaviour Healthy Unhealthy

Language

Physical Limits

Age

Dating Environments

+SKITS

With a partner, brainstorm an unhealthy dating scenario (or incident dealing with peer pressure) that a teenager might encounter on the following page. Then, write three skits in which you deal with the situation in an assertive, passive, and aggressive way. Each skit should last no longer than 30 seconds.