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Are You Being Abused?
Here are some examples of various types of abuse.
Ask yourself -- does your partner:
EMOTIONAL
- Say you’re stupid, filthy. Lazy, nasty, silly, etc.?
- Forbid you to work, handle your own money.
- Make decisions or socialize with your friends?
- Say you’re an unfit mother or you do not deserve anything?
- Force you to sign over property or give up your personal possessions?
- Withhold affection to punish you?
- Ask who would want you besides your partner?
- Undermine your sense of power or confidence?
PHYSICAL
- Shove, hit, slap, bite, choke, kick, cut or burn you?
- Threaten or hurt you with objects (pipes, hammer, bats, rope, belts, guns, or knives)?
- Endanger you or your children with reckless driving?
- Neglect you when you are sick, pregnant or in need of medical treatment?
- Throw objects or restrain you?
- Threaten or attempt to drown you?
- Abandon you or lock you out of the house?
SEXUAL
- Force you to have sex when you do not want to?
- Commit sexual acts that you consider sadistic or unnatural?
- Force you to have sex with or watch others?
- Criticize your sexual performance?
DESTRUCTIVE ACTS
- Break furniture, ransack or dump garbage in your house?
- Slash tires, tamper with your car?
- Hurt or kill pets to punish or frighten you?
