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Are you or a friend coping with a family conflict like separated, divorced, drug addicted, abused or abusive parents?
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Are you or a friend coping with a problem friendship, boyfriend, girlfriend, authority figure, cult or gang?
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Are you or a friend coping with poor self-esteem, stress, anxiety, loneliness, grief, anger or depression?
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Are you or a friend coping with a lack of basic needs like food, clothing, housing, employment, or trouble at school?
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Are you or a friend coping with a physical disability, sexually transmitted disease (STD), HIV/AIDS, self-harm, a psychiatric or eating disorder?
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Are you or a friend coping with thoughts of leaving home, running away or are you already homeless?
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What is a relationship?
Relationships can either build you up or bring you down. If you, or a friend, are coping with a problem friendship, boyfriend, girlfriend, authority figure, cult or gang this is the place to talk to someone who can help.
What is a relationship?
Are there different kinds of relationships?
Do I have a problem relationship?
How do I get help?
How can Nineline help me?
meet a Covenant House kid
visit our forum on relationships
download info on relationships (pdf)
abuse information for caregivers
Share your feelings about relationships in the Nineline Forum.
You will have a lot of relationships in your lifetime - relationships with family, friends, teachers, bosses even religious mentors. Good relationships should be supportive, respectful and non-judgmental. But bad relationships can become controlling, disrespectful and even abusive.
Conflicts in relationships often creep up when one person sees the opportunity to take advantage of the other persons low self-esteem. As a teenager you might find yourself feeling especially vulnerable to these kinds of relationships because you may find yourself turning to others for advice and support more and more as you grow older both people your own age (friends, boyfriends, girlfriends) and older (teachers, bosses, religious mentors).
Peer pressure is especially strong among teenagers who are eager to be accepted. Some peer pressure to join in athletic or academic activities is good. But some peer pressure to have sex, drink, do drugs, join a cult or gang is negative. When adult authority figures (teachers, bosses or religious mentors) are controlling, disrespectful or abusive of you, it can be even more difficult to stand up for yourself.
In either case, you need to be strong, find someone to talk to who will boost your self-esteem so you can turn these bad relationships around or leave them altogether!