Signs of Abuse
There are many different signs of an abusive relationship.
The following chart are common indicators or potentially abusive relationship.
Do you:
- feel afraid of your partner most of the time?
- avoid discussing certain issues out of fear of angering your partner?
- feel that no-matter what you do, it will never be right?
- believe that you deserve to be mistreated as you are?
- wonder if you’re the one who is crazy?
- feel emotionally numb or helpless?
Does your partner:
- criticize your every action ?
- put you down?
- treat you badly and embarrasses you in front of friends ?
- ignore or put down your opinions or accomplishments?
- blame you for his own abusive behavior?
- see you as property or a sex object, rather than as a person?
- act excessively jealous and possessive?
- control where you go or what you do?
- keep you from seeing your friends or family?
- limit your access to money, the phone, or the car?
- have a bad and unpredictable temper?
- hurt you, or threaten to hurt or kill you?
- threaten to take your children away or harm them?
- threaten to commit suicide if you leave?
- force you to have sex?
- destroy your belongings?
- constantly checks up on you?