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Zeta Phi Beta hosts speech on healthy relationships
JoLynn Elkins
Issue date: 9/27/07 Section: Campus Life
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Love, romance, and relationships were on the minds of the Tarleton students who attended a speech on healthy relationships held by Zeta Phi Beta. Some of the key ingredients named to a happy relationship were self-confidence and communication.
Twenty-two people attended Zeta Phi Beta's fall semester "'Z-H.O.P.E.': Healthy Relationships and Domestic Violence" program that was held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Texan Village Club house. Z-H.O.P.E. stands for Zeta Phi Betas Helping Other People Excel.
The topic was healthy relationships with speaker Dana Moore, assistant dean of students. Sawaki Samuels, president and treasurer of Zeta Phi Beta and Ashli McDonald, secretary of Zeta Phi Beta hosted the event.
Sarah Bodden, a senior and member of Minority Student Leaders said that confidence was an important part of what she learned.
"I learned to be more aware of the situations that I find myself in with the opposite sex and to stay confident with who I am," Bodden said.
The bottom line for the topics was honesty, truth, self-confidence, and self-worth. This struck home with Kevela Kirby, a sophomore and member of Tau Beta Sigma.
"You have to love yourself before anybody will love you," Kirby said.
Moore started the evening with listing the important things a person must understand to have a healthy relationship. There has to be the understanding that everyone wants love, everyone comes into relationships with excess baggage, and everyone has insecurities.
Moore listed listening, trust, honesty, support, communication and having a separate identity from your significant other as factors to a healthy relationship. She said that if you stop spending time with friends because you are with this significant other, then those friends will no longer want to be your friend after the significant other is out of your life.
Valentine's Day was another well-liked issue with the men in attendance and they wanted to know why women expect so much on this holiday. Moore said that if a guy only does something on important days, such as a birthday, Christmas and Valentine's Day, then the couple isn't building a relationship day by day.
"There are 365 days in the year, and you are just going to grab at three?" Moore asked. She said that women should do for their significant others just as much as they expect their men to do for them, as relationships are give and take.
She emphasized that a person should not change his or her standards just for a person he or she is dating because it isn't worth the risk of losing friends or self-respect.
"My brother told me…a man will be a dog to you as much as you let them, but it is your choice," said Moore. She made it clear that this was true of women, too.
She also emphasized that intimacy is more than a sexual act, and that sex is a gift that should be saved for when you really know a person, as it is an expression of love.
Twenty-two people attended Zeta Phi Beta's fall semester "'Z-H.O.P.E.': Healthy Relationships and Domestic Violence" program that was held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Texan Village Club house. Z-H.O.P.E. stands for Zeta Phi Betas Helping Other People Excel.
The topic was healthy relationships with speaker Dana Moore, assistant dean of students. Sawaki Samuels, president and treasurer of Zeta Phi Beta and Ashli McDonald, secretary of Zeta Phi Beta hosted the event.
Sarah Bodden, a senior and member of Minority Student Leaders said that confidence was an important part of what she learned.
"I learned to be more aware of the situations that I find myself in with the opposite sex and to stay confident with who I am," Bodden said.
The bottom line for the topics was honesty, truth, self-confidence, and self-worth. This struck home with Kevela Kirby, a sophomore and member of Tau Beta Sigma.
"You have to love yourself before anybody will love you," Kirby said.
Moore started the evening with listing the important things a person must understand to have a healthy relationship. There has to be the understanding that everyone wants love, everyone comes into relationships with excess baggage, and everyone has insecurities.
Moore listed listening, trust, honesty, support, communication and having a separate identity from your significant other as factors to a healthy relationship. She said that if you stop spending time with friends because you are with this significant other, then those friends will no longer want to be your friend after the significant other is out of your life.
Valentine's Day was another well-liked issue with the men in attendance and they wanted to know why women expect so much on this holiday. Moore said that if a guy only does something on important days, such as a birthday, Christmas and Valentine's Day, then the couple isn't building a relationship day by day.
"There are 365 days in the year, and you are just going to grab at three?" Moore asked. She said that women should do for their significant others just as much as they expect their men to do for them, as relationships are give and take.
She emphasized that a person should not change his or her standards just for a person he or she is dating because it isn't worth the risk of losing friends or self-respect.
"My brother told me…a man will be a dog to you as much as you let them, but it is your choice," said Moore. She made it clear that this was true of women, too.
She also emphasized that intimacy is more than a sexual act, and that sex is a gift that should be saved for when you really know a person, as it is an expression of love.
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