Physical Abuse
- Threatens to hurt or kill you or your family
- Pushes or shoves
- Holds you to keep you from leaving
- Kicks or chokes
- Hits, slaps or punches
- Throws objects at you
- Locks you out of the house
- Abandons you in dangerous places
- Refuses to help you when you are sick, injured or pregnant
- Subjects you to reckless driving
- Rapes or coerces you sexually
- Threatens to hurt you with a weapon
- Abuses your pets
- Breaks furniture, belongings and personal effects
Sexual Abuse
- Harasses you about imagined affairs
- Tells anti-women jokes
- Treats women as sex objects
- Is jealous and assumes you will have sex with any available person
- Insists that you dress in a more sexual way than you want
- Criticizes you sexually
- Insists on unwanted or uncomfortable touching
- Withholds sex and affection
- Calls you sexual names like “whore” or “frigid”
- Forces you to undress when you don’t want to
- Publicly shows sexual interest in other women
- Have affairs after agreeing to a monogamous relationship
- Forces particular unwanted sexual acts
- Forces sex when you are sick or when it is a danger to your health
- Forces sex for the purpose of hurting you with objects or weapons
- Tells you about affairs
- Commits sadistic sexual acts
- Rapes you or coerces you sexually
Emotional Abuse
- Ignores your feelings
- Ridicules or insults women as a group
- Ridicules or insults your most valued belief (religion, race, heritage, class, etc.)
- Withholds approval, appreciation or affection as punishment
Financial Abuse
- Steals money from you or your family
- Makes financial decisions without consulting you
- Forbids you from working or attending school
- Overuses your credit cards or refuses to pay the bills
- Forces you to file fraudulent tax claims
- Prevents you from owning or using credit cards
- Harasses you at your workplace
- Reports you “cheat” on your benefits so they are cut
- Forces you to sign over assets and power-of-attorney
- Makes you cash-in property or financial assets you own so that they can share the proceeds