Everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, and valued in their relationships. But knowing what a healthy relationship actually looks like, and having the skills to build and maintain one, isn't something most of us are taught directly.
This series was designed to change that.
Relationships 101 is a six-part series designed for LGBTQ+ people in Wyoming and beyond. It starts with what healthy relationships look like across all areas of life, builds toward a deeper understanding of the full relationship continuum, and ends with practical tools you can use every day in your romantic relationships, your friendships, your chosen family relationships, and your community.
Whether you're in a relationship right now, thinking about past ones, or just want to build these skills, this series meets you where you are, with no judgment.
Welcome to Relationships 101
A Note Before You Begin
Some of this content touches on abuse, violence, and identity-based harm. That can bring up strong feelings. The content warning above is there for a reason, please take it seriously. Take breaks if you need to, come back when you're ready, and remember that you don't have to go through this all at once.
You are not alone and support is always available on the resources page.
What You’ll Learn
Each module covers a different piece of the picture.
Module 1: What Does a Healthy Relationship Look Like?
Start with the foundation: what healthy relationships look like across all types of relationships, why they matter, and what you deserve. Includes the relationship continuum.
Module 2: Boundaries, Communication, and Showing Up for Each Other
The skills module. Covers communication styles, how to set and express limits, how to respond instead of react, how to repair conflict, and how to show up for someone who needs support. Includes LGBTQ+-specific communication contexts.
Module 3: Carrying These Skills Forward
How to keep practicing these skills, share them with the people in your life, and build the kind of community where healthy relationships can thrive. Covers chosen family, community connectedness, and what healthy community looks like in practice.
Module 4: What Is Abuse?
The Full Spectrum Learn how abuse differs from conflict, why it's always about patterns of power and control, and why it can be so hard to recognize early on.
Module 5: Identity Abuse: What Makes It Different for LGBTQ+ People
Explore tactics that are specific to LGBTQ+ experiences, including outing threats, controlling gender expression, and using community as leverage.
Module 6: Knowing What to Look For
Build the skill of pattern recognition: what shifting along the continuum looks like in real life, how to recognize early warning signs, and how to show up for someone before things get worse.
Start with Module 1: What Does a Healthy Relationship Look Like?
Funding Disclaimer: This project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $135,000.00 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.