1. Trust

Trust means more than keeping secrets and being faithful. When you trust your partner, you feel a sense of safety and security in the relationship. Trust allows both partners to reach high levels of intimacy and closeness. It also allows you to set boundaries and know they'll be respected, according to Young Women's Health.

2. Mutual Respect

Healthy relationships have two partners who respect each other for who they are. Respectful behaviors include considering your partner when you make decisions that affect the relationship, treating your partner with love and kindness and refraining from saying hurtful things during disagreements.

3. Healthy Communication

Healthy communication helps partners solve disagreements in a respectful manner, but it can also help prevent disagreements altogether, says the University of Texas at Austin's Counseling and Mental Health Center. That's because healthy communication helps convey your needs, wants, opinions and feelings to your partner in a calm, assertive and loving way.

4. Absence of Physical Violence

In healthy relationships, one partner never puts his hands on the other partner in a violent or menacing way. If your partner uses physical violence, no matter how sorry he is afterward, he is not the partner for you. Abusive partners act from a need to control and dominate, not from a respectful place of equal power.

5. Absence of Mental or Emotional Violence

Physical violence isn't the only type of relationship violence, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If you're in a healthy relationship, your partner should never call you names, intimidate you, control you or force you to perform sexual acts. These are types of mental, emotional and sexual abuse.

6. Inependence

Your relationship with your partner shouldn't be the only significant relationship in your life, according to the CDC. Healthy individuals have their own friends, family members, interests and opinions outside the relationship.

7. Common Interests

No two people have everything in common, but people in healthy relationships have an overall respect for each other's interests and hobbies. Even when they participate in activities they're not interested in, they enjoy spending time together.

8. Equal Power

Healthy relationships are an equal 50/50 split. No one partner is the boss. Both partners discuss family decisions and have equal say. This means both partners have input in everything from picking the Friday night movie to making the family budget.

9. Similar Goals

Even though new relationships don't need to focus on long-term goals, more serious relationships are can suffer when both partners aren't on the same page. When one partner wants children, marriage or to live in a particular location and the other doesn't, it can lead to resentments and unhappiness.

10. Support

Your partner may not like everything you do, but she should always support your choices. For example, she may miss spending time with you, but she will never discourage you from going to school or work. In a healthy relationship, your partner always has your back.

11. Healthy Sexuality

Both partners in a healthy relationship share similar sexual values. They feel safe enough to express their sexual desires and never worry that their partners will force them to do things they're uncomfortable with. Healthy sexuality also includes agreeing on methods of contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

12. Happiness

Even if your relationship is absent of unhealthy relationship characteristics, it doesn't mean it's right for you. At the end of the day, you have to feel happy about your decision to be with your partner. All couples have their rough patches, but overall, your relationship should make you happy more than often than not.

Teen problems can seem overwhelming for parents and adolescents alike. Insecurity about his appearance, friends, which college he has chosen or plans for the weekend might blow up into a major issue for your teen one moment and fade into history the next. You can help your teen understand and deal with his problems by establishing good communication patterns and treating his worries with a good dose of empathy mixed with equal portions of adult wisdom and patience.

Step 1

Read about the physical and emotional changes teenagers go through, and try to remember your own experience. Your child probably feels as confused as you might about her struggle for independence, sudden preoccupation with appearance and desire to fit in with her peers. Not every teen becomes a rebellious stranger, but pediatricians suggest that parents ready themselves for mood swings and conflict during adolescence, according to Kids Health. Knowing what you might face will help you prepare.

Step 2

Identify and address the problem, but avoid making assumptions. The solution to your teen's problem depends on the underlying cause. You might feel your teen was defying authority or foolishly choosing video games over education when he cut classes one Friday afternoon. Further questioning might reveal a bullying issue at school that made him afraid to attend physical education class. On the other hand, he might have given into pressure and spent the afternoon at the movies with his peer group.

Step 3

Build your teen's self-esteem every chance you get. Avoid comparing her to others. Instead, address her individual style and personality. Help her develop a healthy self-image by praising her efforts on the track team, kindness to her siblings or refusal to give up on a difficult homework assignment. Compliment her new hairstyle, beautiful smile or gorgeous eyes. Inner attributes such as honesty or integrity are obviously important, but teenagers also need to hear positive comments about their appearance, according to Kids

Health.

Step 4

Talk with your teen about some of the problems you faced as an adolescent. Avoid telling him how silly his current worries over hairstyles, clothing and friends will seem once he reaches adulthood. Instead, share with him how miserable you felt when you found that first pimple or did not make the cut for your high school swim team. Being honest about your teen experience helps relieve his feelings of isolation. You also become living proof that the angst of adolescence is only a temporary condition.

Step 5

Continue your role as parent. Your teen needs you to act as a guardian, coach and advocate rather than another friend. Sympathize with the difficulties she faces, but maintain your expectations regarding household rules, grades and respect for authority.

Step 6

Solve problems when possible or appropriate. Your teen's acne can cause debilitating social stress. Physicians can prescribe treatments that might diminish or clear acne lesions. Many teens face weight issues, which can severely damage self-esteem. Look for a program that emphasizes balanced nutrition and appropriate exercise routines rather than weight loss.

Step 7

Watch for warning signs that might indicate your teenager is experiencing more than a temporary problem. Rapidly falling grades, signs of alcohol or drug use, drastic or persistent changes in behavior and sudden legal difficulties can signal the need for professional advice. Talk with teachers, coaches or your family physician, and find the appropriate resources to help.

A supermoon is a spectacular sight in which the full moon of a given month occurs at the same time the moon is at perigee – the point in its orbit that brings it closest to Earth. During these events, the moon can appear up to 30 percent brighter and 14 percent bigger to skywatchers on Earth. See how the supermoon, or "perigee moon," works in the SPACE.com infographic.