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How to help your friend struggling with
Relationships:
Here are some things you can do if you to help a friend who is making bad relationship choices or who is stuck in a bad relationship:
Be a source of encouragement. Since one of the primary reasons for getting in and staying in bad relationships is low self-worth, it is important that you build your friend up. Assure your friend that there are many other people besides the person they are dating that love them and care about them. Tell your friend that you will be there for them if the relationship ends, and that they don’t need to be afraid of being alone.
Help them examine if they are being loved well. You could use this verse from the Bible to show them what real love is and what they deserve:
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 13 4-7)