Domestic abuse is not always visible. Here is what it can look like.
Types of Domestic Abuse
- Making you doubt your own memory of events
- Telling you that you are overreacting or too sensitive
- Threatening to hurt you, your children, or people you love
- Using jealousy and paranoia to control you
- Making you feel like you are going mad
- Constantly criticising you
- Humiliating you in front of others
- Withdrawing affection as punishment
- Making you feel worthless
- Telling you no one else would want you
- Controlling all the money
- Stopping you from working
- Making you ask for money for basic things
- Running up debt in your name
- Leaving you financially dependent so you cannot leave
- Hitting, slapping, kicking or pushing
- Grabbing or restraining you
- Throwing objects at you
- Stopping you from sleeping or eating
- Any unwanted physical contact used to intimidate or harm
- Pressuring or forcing you into sexual activity
- Making you feel you owe them sex
- Ignoring your right to say no within a relationship
- Using sex as a way to control or punish you
