Consider the following behaviors as warning signs that you or someone you know may be an abusive partner.
Have you ever:
- Given your partner angry threatening stares or looks?
- Criticized, mocked, ridiculed or called your partner names?
- Given your partner the “silent treatment”?
- Embarrassed, humiliated or put your partner down in private or public?
- Tried to control how your partner thinks, dresses, spends their time, spends their money or see their friends?
- Screamed, insulted or swore at your partner?
- Stopped your partner from doing things they wanted to do?
- Said or done things to make your partner think they are “crazy” or “stupid”?
- Intimidated your partner by blocking a doorway, using threatening gestures or standing over your partner during an argument?
- Threatened your partner by breaking things, punching walls, slamming doors or throwing/kicking things?
- Pushed, grabbed, shoved, wrestled, hit or slapped your partner?
