Signs to look for in an abusive relationship
When your partner:
- humiliates or criticizes you in public
- frightens you with his looks and/or actions
- controls who you become friends with, how you dress, when and where you go, who you can see …
- prevents you from seeing your friends or family
- holds the purse string and takes over your financial earnings so that you are wholly dependent on him for money
- makes all the decisions in your relationship
- categorizing your faults at all times, threatens to take your children away from you or hurt them
- disowns any responsibility to any form of abuse and often blames you for his destructive behavior
- punches holes in the house, break things, chokes your pet or threatens to kill them
- intimidate you with the use of weapon
- physically hurt you
- tries to prevent you from doing thing that will enhance your self-esteem
- forces you to drop charges when you file for a complaint
- threatens to commit suicide if you leave him
- threatens to kill you
If you see one or more of the above patterns of behavior, please try to consider what kind of relationship you have as these are good indicators that you are in an abusive relationship.
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