SIGNS OF AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP

Signs of an abusive relationship:

Most domestic violence includes emotional abuse, which can include such tactics such as:

  • destructive criticism, name calling, sulking

  • pressure tactics

  • lying to you, or to your friends and family about you

  • persistently putting you down in front of other people

  • never listening or responding when you talk

  • isolating you from friends and family, monitoring your phone calls, emails, texts and letters

  •  checking up on you, following you, not letting you go out alone.

    • The impact of emotional abuse may be even more devastating than physical assault - and have much longer term effects - yet most of the above behaviours are not crimes, and it's therefore much more difficult to obtain protection, or even to get others to take them seriously.

    Reference: Women’s Aid website, http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic_violence_topic.asp?section=0001000100220042&sectionTitle=Emotional+abuse
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