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Signs of Abuse


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Sometimes it is difficult and confusing to recognise Signs of Abuse and admit that you are in an abusive relationship, or to find a way out, but there are clear signs to help you know if you are being abused. If the person you love or live with does any of these things to you, it's time to get help:

  • Destroys your property or things that you care about.

  • Constantly humiliates you in front of others.

  • Insists on or forces you into having sex, against your will.

  • Persuades or forces you to have sex with others for favours or money.

  • Threatens to hurt you or the children or pets, or does cause hurt (by hitting, punching, slapping, kicking, or biting).

  • Blames you for his/her violent outbursts

  • Uses or threatens to use a weapon against you.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

  • For example, complains that you don't make an effort to look nice, and then accuses you of being unfaithful when you do make the effort.

  • Keeps track of what you are doing all the time by making you account for every hour of your day. Then angrily accuses you of boring them with every little detail of what you’ve been doing all day.

  • Constantly accuses you of being unfaithful, so that you are unable to relax or make eye contact with anyone when you are out together. Then angrily accuses you of being unsociable.

  • Prevents or discourages you from seeing friends or family, or going to work or school. Then tells other or you, you are lazy for not seeing family, friends or going to work, school.

  • Gets angry when drinking alcohol or using drugs. Accuses you of being a killjoy when you don’t join in or a lush when you do.

  • Controls all the money you spend, even if it's your own earnings or savings. Tells everyone else you spend all the money.

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