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Domestic Violence is abuse committed against you by someone related by marriage, a domestic partnership or someone with whom you are having or have had an intimate or dating relationship.
- Name calling
- Blaming and emotional abuse
- Hitting
- Throwing things
- Punching holes in the wall
- Grabbing throat
- Controlling you and where you can go and who you can see
- Threats to hurt you or those you love
- Control your life?
- Scare you with threats of violence to you, the children, your pets, your family?
- Threaten to commit suicide ?
- Threaten to take the children? Say you’ll never see them again?
- Walk on eggshells around your partner?
- Apologize all the time?
- Try to keep the children from upsetting your partner?
- Feel trapped and hopeless to change your life?
If this sounds familiar, you may have an abusive partner. Love does not have to hurt. If you want to know more about our shelter or a restraining order to stay safe, call us. If your partner has ever grabbed you by the throat you are in great danger. You may have been a fraction of a second from dying.
Types of Domestic Violence
Physical abuse is when your partner uses force against you such as hitting you, pushing you, knocking you down, choking you and any other way they can use their body or another object to injure you.
Your partner makes threats to hurt you, themselves, children, pets, report you to social services, says you won’t get visitation, or they will take the children, or have you deported. Says everything is your fault, calls you names, put downs, isolates you from your family and friends, destroys your property.
If your partner prevents you from getting or keeping a job, controls all the money so you have to ask for it, takes your money, gives you an allowance, or doesn’t let you know about or have access to the family income.
Your partner forces any sexual act on you when you do not want it or forces you to perform sexual acts you do not want to do. Being married doesn’t change the fact that this is sexual abuse or rape.