Bill of Dating Rights
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
Love is wonderful. Love is scary. Love is confusing. Love is
everywhere. What is LOVE?
Love is …
- Responsibility
- Hard Work
- Pleasure
- Commitment
- Friendship
- Caring
- Honesty
- Intimacy
- Trust
- Communication
- Respect
- Compromising
- Closeness
- Recognizing Differences
- Openness
Love isn't …
- Jealousy
- Pain
- Violence
- Rape
- Obsession
- Being Selfish
- Cruelty
- Proving Yourself
- Fear
- Dependency
- Intimidation
- Manipulation
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I Have
the Right to—
- trust myself above all others.
- receive decent treatment by anyone
I date.
- refuse to date anyone.
- be safe on a date.
- pay my own way on a date.
- be assertive on a date.
- us protection during sex.
- agree to have sex.
- refuse to have sex.
- be respected as a person.
- disagree with my date.
- say NO.
- get angry.
- fulfill myself with or without
a partner in my life.
- know who I am.
- know who I am dating.
- determine who I will date.
- use my own transportation
on a date.
- leave any dating situation
my instincts tell me to.
- prosecute for battery and
sexual assault.
- receive emotional support
and understanding.
- have a healthy dating relationship.
- control my own destiny.
- be loved.
- be cared about.
- experience intimacy.
- maintain high self-esteem.
- trust myself above all others.
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