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Bill of Dating Rights

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Love is wonderful.  Love is scary.  Love is confusing.  Love is everywhere.  What is LOVE?

Love Is…

  • Responsibility
  • Hard work
  • Pleasure
  • Commitment
  • Friendship
  • Caring
  • Honesty
  • Intimacy
  • Trust
  • Communication
  • Respect
  • Compromising
  • Closeness
  • Recognizing differences
  • Openness

Love Isn't

  • Jealousy
  • Pain
  • Violence
  • Rape
  • Obsession
  • Being selfish
  • Cruelty
  • Proving yourself
  • Fear
  • Dependency
  • Intimidation
  • Manipulation

I Have The Right To:

  • trust myself above all others
  • decent treatment by anyone I date
  • refuse to date anyone
  • be safe on a date
  • pay my own way on a date
  • be assertive on a date
  • have mutually consenting and pleasurable sex
  • refuse to have sex
  • be respected as a person
  • disagree with my date
  • say NO
  • get angry
  • fulfill myself with or without a partner in my life
  • know who I am
  • know who I am dating
  • determine who I will date
  • use my own transportation on a date
  • leave any dating situation my instincts tell me to
  • prosecute for battery and sexual assault
  • receive emotional support and understanding
  • a healthy dating relationship
  • control my own destiny
  • be loved
  • be cared about
  • experience intimacy
  • maintain high self-esteem
  • trust myself above all others

From: www.advocatesforyouth.org

 

 
 

 

Page last updated August 1, 2007

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