Your Life, Your Rights: Relationships
Everyone has the right to have relationships. Relationships can be with family, friends, dating partners, and more. Relationship rights include:
- Have different types of relationships
- Start new relationships
- End relationships at any time
- Be treated with dignity and respect
- Not be abused or hurt in relationships
- Have privacy when you want it
- Say “no” to things you don’t want to do
- Do things you want to do
- Share your thoughts and interests
- Have romantic relationships and date
- Marry the person you love
- Become a parent to a child or pet
Resources
To help people learn about their rights to relationships, BHDDH created two resources. The first is a one-page flyer, and the second is a guidebook.
Relationships Flyer
The relationships flyer is a one-page document. It can be used as a factsheet on your relationship rights.
Relationships Easy Read Guidebook
The relationships easy read guidebook is a longer document. This document explains information on the one-page flyer in more detail.