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Understanding Domestic Abuse Signs

Domestic abuse is a pattern of behavior used to gain power over an intimate partner, encompassing physical, emotional, and psychological actions. Signs of abuse include intimidation, humiliation, and control over personal decisions, with significant statistics indicating that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men experience physical violence from partners. Victims are encouraged to seek help, as domestic violence can have severe consequences, including job loss and increased risk of homicide.

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Understanding Domestic Abuse Signs

Domestic abuse is a pattern of behavior used to gain power over an intimate partner, encompassing physical, emotional, and psychological actions. Signs of abuse include intimidation, humiliation, and control over personal decisions, with significant statistics indicating that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men experience physical violence from partners. Victims are encouraged to seek help, as domestic violence can have severe consequences, including job loss and increased risk of homicide.

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- Domestic Abuse: a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain

power or control over an intimate partner.

- Abuse: physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of

actions that influence another person.

- Signs of abuse:

- Your partner:

- Embarrass or make fun of you in front of your friends or family?

- Put down your accomplishments?

- Make you feel like you are unable to make decisions?

- Use intimidation or threats to gain compliance?

- Tell you that you are nothing without them?

- Treat you roughly—grab, push, pinch, shove or hit you?

- Call you several times a night or show up to make sure you are where you said

you would be?

- Use drugs or alcohol as an excuse for saying hurtful things or abusing you?

- Blame you for how they feel or act?

- Pressure you sexually for things you aren’t ready for?

- Make you feel like there is “no way out” of the relationship?

- Prevent you from doing things you want – like spending time with friends or

family?

- Try to keep you from leaving after a fight or leave you somewhere after a fight to

“teach you a lesson”?

- You:
- Sometimes feel scared of how your partner may behave?

- Constantly make excuses to other people for your partner’s behaviour?

- Believe that you can help your partner change if only you changed something

about yourself?

- Try not to do anything that would cause conflict or make your partner angry?

- Always do what your partner wants you to do instead of what you want?

- Stay with your partner because you are afraid of what your partner would do if

you broke up?

- No one deserves to abused under any circumstances

- Contact CISMU if you fear your safety or suspect you might be in an abusive situation

- More than 10 million people are abused in one year in the united states

- 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence by an

intimate partner. (What about everyone else?)

- 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71!!!??? Men in America have been raped in their lifetime

(WTFFFFFFF!!!!!!)

- The cost of intimate partner violence exceeds 8.3 billion dollars per year

- Between 21-60% of victims of intimate partner violence lose their jobs due to reasons

stemming from the abus

- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-787-3224 or 1-800-787-3224

- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NOT ALWAYS PHYSICAL ABUSE!!!!!

- Abusers frequently continue to stalk, harass, threaten, and try to control the victim after

the victim escapes


- ⅕ of homicide victims with restraining orders are murdered within two days of

obtaining the order; ⅓ are murdered within the first month.

- Domestic violence actually occurs in LGBTQ relationships at similar or higher rates than

in the general population

- Psychological violence can be equally an equally devastating form of abuse

- Gender plays a significant role in perceiving and reporting incidences of domestic

violence

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