You may be in an abusive relationship if your partner does any of the following: 

• Physically abuses you (hitting, choking, kicking, pinching, twisting arms, restraining, etc.) 

• Controls your money and/or withholds money 

• Does not allow you to have a job

• Isolates you from friends and family 

• Criticizes you frequently 

• Yells or uses violent language 

• Makes threats 

• Uses intimidation to get what they want 

• Uses stress, jealousy, and passion to justify actions 

• Engages in name-calling 

• Mind games 

• Destroys property 

• Forces you to do something you don't want to 

• Forces you to have sex 

• Forces you to have an abortion 

• Pressures you 

• Abandons you in unfamiliar areas

• Threatens to kill you or themselves

• Denies abuse 

• Makes you doubt yourself or feel crazy 

• Gives you little or no privacy

• Prevents you from working or attending school/events

• Controls what you wear