1. Can you identify the characteristics of healthy relationships? What are those characteristics?What information was something you already knew? What information was new to you?
2. In what ways is it helpful to a young adult to know the signs of a potentially abusive relationship?
3. Can you identify any of the “red flags” in your previous relationships, current relationship, or friends and family member relationships with others? What are some of the flags you can identify?
4. Describe what you think may be happening in the life of the victim that would allow him/her to be in an abusive relationship? Did he/she grow up in an abusive environment, for example? What role might self esteem play in the development of an abusive relationship? Are abusive relationships limited to females? Why/why not?
5. At what point in time would you “teach” your children about abusive relationships and how to avoid them?
6. What would you do to help a friend or relative to identify an abusive relationship? What would you do to help that person leave the abusive relationship? Or, do you feel it is none of your business?