How Love Should Feel: A Teen Guide to Relationships, Communication, Boundaries & Safety

What does healthy love actually feel like? How Love Should Feel is a practical and relatable teen guide to relationships, communication, boundaries, respect, consent, and safety. Through realistic stories, everyday situations, and reflection questions, teens are encouraged to think about what they have learned about relationships from family, friends, social media, and the world around them-and decide what they want healthy love to look and feel like in their own lives.Readers explore the difference between conflict and control, how to recognize green, yellow, and red flags, how to communicate clearly, when to set boundaries, and why healthy relationships should feel safe, respectful, honest, and supportive.This book also helps teens understand that they do not have to repeat unhealthy patterns they have seen before. They can learn new ways to communicate, make safer choices, protect their self-worth, and build stronger relationship standards for the future.Part of the Smart Hearts, Strong Futures series, How Love Should Feel is ideal for teens, parents, caregivers, schools, mentoring programs, youth organizations, and community-based relationship education. Healthy love should help you feel more like yourself-not less.