Are You In An Abusive Relationship?

Does your partner…

• 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, phone, email, or transportation?
• Constantly check up on you?
• Have a bad and unpredictable temper?
• Hurt you, or threaten to harm 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?
• Humiliate or yell at you?
• Criticize you, put you down, or call you names?
• Treat you so badly that you’re embarrassed for your friends or family to see?
• Ignore or put down your opinions or accomplishments?
• Blame you for their abusive behavior?
• See you as property or a sex object, rather than a person?
• Makes you feel like you are crazy?
• Ignore your feelings?
• Disrespect you?
• Withhold approval, appreciation or affection?
• Give you the silent treatment?
• Humiliate you privately or in public?
• Ever hit or pushed you, even “accidently”?
• Harass you about imagined affairs?
• Manipulate you with lies and contradictions?
• Try to convince you he or she is “right,” while you are “wrong”?
• Make you feel like you are “going crazy”?
• Make unreasonable demands?
• Treats you well in front of others, but changes into a different person when you’re alone together.
• Denies your personal needs?
• Denies your perceptions, memory, and sanity.
• Causes you to lose confidence and question your perceptions and feelings.
• Blows up or gets angry with you over innocent comments you made.
• Feel afraid of your partner?
• You feel like you are walking on eggshells?
• Constantly finds flaws with you?

Signs of Financial Abuse:

Does your partner…

• Control the finances?
• Withhold money and/or credit cards?
• Give you an allowance?
• Make you provide an accounting for all monies spent?
• Steal from you or take your money?
• Exploit your assets for personal gain?
• Withhold basic necessities such as food, clothes, medications, and shelter?
• Prevents or sabotages your ability to work?