What is Abuse?
Emotional abuse includes
Telling the victim, they can never do anything right
Showing jealousy of the victim’s family/friends and time spent away
Accusing the victim of cheating
Keeping or discouraging the victim from seeing friends/family
Embarrassing or shaming the victim with put-downs
Dictating how the victim dresses, wears their hair, etc.
Telling the victim, they are a bad parent or threatening to hurt, kill or take away their children
Destroying the victim’s property
Psychological abuse includes …
Looking at or acting in ways that scare the person they are abusing
Controlling who the victim sees, where they go, or what they do
Stalking the victim or monitoring their victim’s every move (e.g. in person, online, and/or by GPS tracking on the victim’s phone)
Preventing the victim from making their own decisions
Pressuring or forcing the victim to use drugs or alcohol
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Preventing the victim from working or attending school, harassing the victim at either, keeping their victim up all night so they perform badly at their job or in school
Financial abuse includes …
Controlling every penny spent in the household
Taking the victim’s money or refusing to give them money for expenses
Sexual abuse includes …
Pressuring the victim to have sex when they don’t want to or to do things sexually, they are not comfortable with
Forcing sex with others
Refusing to use protection when having sex or sabotaging birth control
Physical abuse includes …
Threatening to hurt or kill the victim’s friends, loved ones or pets
Intimidating the victim with guns, knives, or other weapons
Domestic violence is a term that includes many different abuses with a multitude of different ways to exert power and control over the abuser’s victim.
If you think you are being abused by someone you love, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE for confidential, anonymous help.