Different Kinds of Abuse

Emotional Abuse

• Giving you the silent treatment
• Accusing you of having affairs
• Not permitting you to use the telephone
• Bragging about infidelity
• Embarrassing you in front of others
• Forcing you to stay in the house or locking you out of the house
• Killing or harming pets
• Calling you dumb, stupid, ugly, disgusting, etc
• Threatening or attempting suicide
• Monitoring your behavior

Financial/Resource Abuse

• Taking your money
• Putting all bills in your name
• Selling your possessions without checking with you, destroying property, etc
• Not providing money for food or clothing
• Forcing you to write bad checks
• Making you account for every dime you spend
• Quitting or losing jobs
• Forcing you to commit a crime
• Not allowing you to go to school or to work
• Withholding child support
• Taking or disabling car
• Running up debts

Physical Abuse

• Slapping, hitting, punching, choking
• Threatening with a weapon
• Banging head into wall
• Dragging through the house
• Restraining, tripping, pushing
• Burning with cigarette, curling iron , etc
• Throwing down stairs or against wall
• Pushing out of car
• Any rough treatment such as while dressing or undressing or pushing, nudging, grabbing when passing a child

Sexual Abuse

• Rape
• Forcing sex with partner's friends
• Making constant sexual demands
• Forbidding birth control
• Forcing distasteful sex acts on you
• Beating if sex is refused
• Any petting or fondling
• Placing children on one's lap consistantly for no apparent reason

Verbal Abuse

• Yelling
• Name calling, belittling, using put downs, calling you stupid, etc
• Criticizing appearance
• Constant blaming
• Telling kids not to listen to you
• Using racial slurs toward you
• Putting down your family
• Threatening to kill you, a friend, or a family member