- Controlling access to financial information
- Refusal to share money
- Preventing partner from having or keeping a job
- Taking partner's money
- Not allowing partner's name to be on accounts, which would allow partner to build credit
- Demanding account of all purchases
- Name calling, insults, continual criticism
- Extreme jealousy or possessiveness
- Isolation from family or friends
- Monitoring where partner goes & who partner spends time with
- Withholding affection as punishment
- Threats to hurt partner, children, family or pets
- Humiliation or partner in any way
- Expection of partner to ask permission
- Damaging property when angry (thrown objects, punched walls, kicked doors, etc.)
- Pushing, slapping, biting or kicking
- Abandoning partner in a dangerous or unfamiliar place
- Driving recklessly to scare partner
- Using of a weapon to threaten or hurt partner
- Trapping partner at home
- Preventing partner from calling police or seeking medical attention
Resources:
The National Domestic Violence Hotline |
www.thehotline.org
The National Sexual Assault Hotline |
www.rainn.org
The National Dating Abuse Helpline |
www.loveisrespect.org