If the person you’re involved with acts
controlling, aggressive, coercive, or
violent, that’s abuse. Relationships can
be abusive even if there is no hitting;
abuse can be verbal, emotional, physical,
or sexual, or a combination of these.
Signs of dating Violence
Does Your Bofriend/Girlfriend...
Act like he/she owns you?
Constantly grab, pinch, shove, trip, bite, kick, or hit you?
Blow off your feelings?
Isolate you from your friends and family?
Drive recklessly when you are together?
Touch you in ways that make you feel uncomfortable?
Withhold affection and appreciation to punish you?
Shout at you or call you names?
Continually criticize you or put down your accomplishments and goals?
Make your decisions for you?
Embarrass you in front of others?
Blame you for his/her moods or abusiveness?
Call you constantly to check up on you?
Make you feel “trapped” in the relationship?
Threaten to commit suicide if you leave the relationship?
Force you to have sex against your will?
Accuse you of having sex with others or cheating?
If you’ve answered “yes” to ANY of these questions, you may be in an abusive relationship. You may feel alone but you are not. If you need help, confidential help is just a phone call away.