We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else that's key in a good relationship. Check out their pieces here and tell us what YOU think makes up a healthy relationship! 

We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else that's key in a good relationship. Check out their pieces here and tell us what YOU think makes up a healthy relationship! 

We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else that's key in a good relationship. Check out their pieces here and tell us what YOU think makes up a healthy relationship! 

We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else that's key in a good relationship. Check out their pieces here and tell us what YOU think makes up a healthy relationship! 

Dating abuse isn't something anyone wants to talk about, but as long as we're ignoring it, the problem will never go away. Instead, join Stay Teen as we participate in National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, a national effort to raise awareness about dating violence and abuse during the month of February.

It's kind of hard to remember our lives without Facebook...it's how we connect, keep in touch, and—let's face it—waste an enormous amount of time. So it's only natural that something that we spend so much time on bleeds over from life life to dating life. So DOES Facebook affect the way we date?

We talk all the day...to our friends, to our teachers, to our boyfriends/girlfriends, to our parents. But are we just talking or are we actually communicating? And, for that matter, how important is good communication when it comes to healthy relationships?  

We’ve all been there…your best friend has a new boyfriend/girlfriend that you aren’t absolutely crazy about. Put frankly, you just really don’t like him/her whatsoever. As a good friend, you try to remain supportive of their relationship. You play that whole, “if my friend is happy, I’m happy” game with yourself. Sooner or later, however, the two of you are talking and the reality of the situation slips out:

I remember how awkward it was. My closest friend was going out with a guy who was known to be a player. He was somewhat good looking, and dressed like he came out of a catalog. She was so caught up in his clothing and his “good looks”, that she ignored all the girls who were his “best friends” aka “side joints,” in other words the girls he spent time with when my friend wasn’t around. I remember finding out he was cheating. 

Last time, I shared my top 5 dating deal breakers…but when you get right down to it, there’s obviously way more than five things someone can do to make you want to end things. So, by popular demand, here are five more things that guys do that drive me crazy.