How to know you're in a healthy sexual relationship? Are you in a healthy sexual relationship? The answer is a resounding no if you're not able to find fulfillment on your own and not able to voice your wants and needs, experts say.
“If we don’t value who we are as individuals, the sexual health of relationships and partnerships becomes near impossible,” said Dr. Logan Levkoff, a certified sex educator and nationally recognized expert in relationships and parenting.
The educators partnered with the National Coalition for Sexual Health to launch the “Five Actions Steps to Good Sexual Health,” which focus on not just whether or not you used a condom, but relationship skills too.
"Valuing who you are and knowing what's right for you means if someone interacts with you in a way that doesn't work for you, you can be like, 'That's cool but it's just really not right for me,'" Boodram said.
"Or if they want to move at a pace that maybe for them feels really good, you can say, 'I totally get that. I respect that this is the way you operate, it's just not going to work for me,'" she added. "That is just a tool that I didn't pick up until my late 20s, and it was like discovering I had a superpower."
Finding your sexual "superpower" can happen no matter what your age or how many relationships you've had or not had.