UNIVERSIDAD DE GUAYAQUIL

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS

CÁTEDRA DE INGLÉS TÉCNICO II
Teacher Aulestia Gastón
Grupo #6

STUDENT: MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES GÓMEZ FORTTY

I watched this TED Talk and thought you would find it interesting. Katie Hood: The
difference between healthy and unhealthy love https://go.ted.com/C96a.

Throughout the years the human being has maintained social relations of different types
with a great variety of interests, among them the love relationships play a very important
role in our lives. However, sometimes leading a healthy love relationship becomes
complicated and we can not clearly distinguish between what is healthy and what is not
for our personal relationships. Katie Hood in her Ted talks: The difference between
healthy and unhealthy love explains how we can recognize these differences and how this
affects in a positive way in the rest of our social relationships with friends or family.

Katie Hood mentions the 5 key points to recognize an unhealthy love relationship. The
first is intensity, she tells us that abusive relationships begin to be accelerated and exciting
and then become suffocating, the second point is isolation which makes it move away
from family and friends to Katie is essential that each person has their personal space for
love to be healthy. Extreme jealousy is the third point, in a healthy love relationship none
should feel persecuted or harassed by the jealousy of the couple. As a fourth point we
have belittling, a partner that make a joke at your expense, or shut you down in front of
Friends, this is often followed up by accusing you of overreacting is another sign that you
might not be in a healthy relationship. Finally, the fifth point is volatility, when you have
tearful arguments, followed by passionate makeups, if your partner makes hateful
comments, then apologizes and promises to never say those things again. According to
Katie if people understand the characteristics that make for an unhealthy relationship, we
can train ourselves to do better. So, we should be taught how to love in order to have a
healthy relationship.
In my opinión, the 5 points that Katie mentioned are precise, in many problematic
relationship we can se at least one or some of these behaviors. Moreover, by teaching
people how to love we can start making people more concious about these matters and
reduce the violence between couples.