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You may be in an abusive relationship if your partner:
- Pushes,
shoves, slaps, hits, kicks or chokes you.
- Holds
you to keep you from leaving.
- Throws
objects at you.
- Abandons
you in dangerous places.
- Subjects
you to reckless driving.
- Forces
you off the road or keeps you from driving.
- Threatens
to hurt you with a weapon.
- Ignores
your feelings.
- Ridicules
or insults women as a group or your most valued beliefs,
religion, race, heritage or class.
- Continually
calls you names or shouts at you.
- Withholds
approval, appreciation or affection as punishment.
- Insults
your family or friends.
- Humiliates
you in private or public.
- Makes
all decisions for you and controls your actions.
- Tells
you about his other romantic involvements.
- Acts
jealous and harassing about imagined romantic involvements
between you and others.
- Manipulates
you with lies and contradictions.
- Insists
that you dress in a more sexual way than you want to.
- Minimizes
the importance of your feelings about sex.
- Criticizes
you sexually.
- Insists
on unwanted or uncomfortable touching.
- Forces
you to have sex.
Sources:
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
This
page was last updated on 12/27/2004
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