Emotional: When you are made to feel stupid or worthless by what someone says or does. This would include such things as name calling, placing blame of all the problems on you within a relationship, humiliating or making you feel small in the presence of others.
Physical: When someone uses a part of their body or an object to harm someone else’s body or to control ones actions. This can include pushing, shoving, holding a person down, slapping, punching, kicking and assault with a weapon. The extreme form of physical abuse is murder.
Psychological: When a person uses threats and causes fear in you to gain control. This would involve threatening to harm you, your children or your family in such cases where you threaten to leave for example, threatening to harm themselves, threatening to destroy your property.
Sexual:
When you are forced by someone to take part in sexual activity by someone
when you do not want to. It also involves touching you in a sexual manner
against your will, or forcing you to take part in sexual activities that
you find to be degrading and/or painful.
Economic: When someone controls your finances against your will, forces you to work, or takes money that is needed to care for your family.
Destruction
of Property: When your personal belongings or property is destroyed
by someone. This is meant to place fear especially for your own personal
safety. It is important to note here that money women believe that destruction
of their property means that they are next.
EXTRA NOTES
* All six types of abuse are damaging and as a result can have major effects on a person.
* Physical assault, sexual assault, and uttering threats are against the law.
* Most women
who are being abused suffer from not only one type, but a combination of
several types of abuse. Physical abuse is always accompanied by other types
of abuse. It never occurs in isolation.