Love rights - the bottom lines

Your love rights are kind of like your human rights - they’re the things you should expect from a relationship.

We all have the right to

• be listened to
• have our needs taken seriously
• disagree or to say ‘no’ without feeling guilty
• express our own opinions
• be treated with respect and as an equal
• decide how much time we want to spend with a partner
• not be hurt, hit, put-down, manipulated, or controlled
• decide to spend some time on our own, or with our own friends and family
• talk to whoever we want
• decide not to have sex for any reason
• make our own decisions about our life, and
• fall out of love, or to leave a relationship.

If you’re in a relationship and don’t feel like you have these rights, there might be something wrong with how you’re being treated. Do the quiz: Is it love or control?

Related links

• What is love?
• The ‘I’ in relationship
• Dear Diary: Who am I?

Photo from Flickr by Karen Eliot

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