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IF YOU NEED HELP: warning signsIt is verbal/emotional abuse if your partner:
Ridicules your most valued beliefs, race, religion, heritage or class
Ignores your feelings
Continually criticizes you and/or calls you names
Withholds approval, appreciation or affection as punishment
Abuses, tortures or kills pets to hurt you
Keeps track of where you are, what you do and who you spend time with.
It is financial abuse if your partner:
Refuses to work
Refuses to allow you to work
Makes you ask for money or gives you an allowance
Takes your money
Refuses to allow you to participate in family financial decisions
It is physical abuse if your partner:
Intimidates you through the use of looks, gestures, or actions
Destroys your property
Threatens you with physical harm
Pushes, shoves or restrains you
Physically restrains you
Bites, scratches, burns or strangles you
Hits, punches or kicks you
Pulls your hair or rips your clothing
Throws objects at you |
