Healthy relationships can make you feel happy, supported and able to achieve what you want to achieve.

An unhealthy relationship can affect your self-worth and your confidence. The relationship can also get worse and actually become abusive and violent.

As well as the physical harm an abusive relationship can cause, an abusive relationship can also affect your other friendships, wreck your self-esteem and lead to you being depressed. To find out more about abusive relationships visit www.idas.org.uk or to listen to other young people's accounts of abusive relationships visit www.thehideout.org.uk/over10/default.aspa

If you are in an unhealthy or abusive relationship and your partner won't change, give some thought to ending the relationship. For tips on ending a relationship click here.

• Abuse can happen to anyone. Studies show it happens in straight and gay relationships, to people from all backgrounds and can happen to men and women.
• Abuse is about one person trying to have power and control over another person and can lead to physical assaults, emotional abuse, financial control and sexual violence. Many relationships that start as unhealthy relationships go on to be abusive.
• 1 in 5 boys and 1 in 10 girls think that abuse or violence against women is acceptable.
• Up to 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men will experience some form of abuse or violence in a relationship. Over 100 women a year are murdered by an abusive partner.
• Abuse is never acceptable. It can wreck your relationship, lead to depression, ruin your job and later in life it can affect the chances of you having a good bond with your children.