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 Does Your Partner?

• Act extremely jealous of others who pay attention to you, or use jealousy to justify his/her actions?

• Control your finances,behavior and even whom you socialize with?

• Make you afraid by using looks, actions, and gestures like smashing things, destroying your property, or displaying weapon?

• Threaten to kill you or commit suicide?

• Make all of the decisions?

• Stop you from seeing or talking to friends, family, or limit your outside involvement?

• Put you down in front of other people, humiliates you, plays mind games, and make you fell as if you are crazy?

• Threaten to take the children away?
  

Do You?

• Become quiet when he/she is a around and feel afraid of making him/her angry ?

• Cancel plan at the last minute?

• Stop seeing your friends and family members,becoming more and more isolated?

• Find yourself explaining bruises to family or friends?
  

  ********IF YOU ANSWER YES TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS,
YOU MAY BE INVOLVED IN A RELATIONSHIP THAT IS PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR SEXUALLY ABUSIVE********

 YOU MAY BE IN AN EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP IF YOUR PARTNER:

• Call you names, insults you or continually criticizes you.

• Does not trust you and act jealous or possessive.

• Tries to isolate you from family or friends.

• Monitors where you go, who you call and who you spend time with.

• Does not want you to work.

• Expects you to ask permission.

• Threatens to hurt you, the children, your family or your pets.

• Humiliates you in any way
  

 YOU MAY BE IN A PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP IF YOUR PARTNER HAS EVER:

• Damaged property when angry ( thrown objects, punched wall, kicked doors,etc)

• Pushed, slapped, bitten, kicked or choked you.

• Used a weapon to threaten or hurt you.

• Trapped you in your home or kept you from leaving.

• Hurt your children.

• Used physical force in sexual situations.

• Scared you by driving recklessly.
  

 YOU MAY BE IN A SEXUALLY ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP IF YOUR PARTNER:

• Views woman as object and believes in rigid gender roles.

• Accuses you of cheating or is often jealous of your outside relationships.

• Want you to dress in a sexual way.

• Insults you in sexual ways or call you sexual names.

• Has ever forced or manipulated you into having sex or performing sexual acts.

• Held you down during sex.

• Demanded sex when you were sick, tired or after beating you.

• Hurt you with weapons or objects during sex.

• Involved other people in sexual activities with you.

• Ignored your feelings regarding sex.

Safety Plan