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Verbal Abuse
Name Calling: Sarcasm, ridiculing, put downs;Threats: To kill or damage property, to kill self, pets or harm friendships.
Intimidation: Creating fear with facial expressions, tone of voice, gesture or stopping another's movement; breaking into vehicles, houses, destroying property, pets.
Emotional Abuse
Continious criticism: Extreme jealousy, denying privacy.
Isolation: From contact with friends and family; restricting who partner can see and talk to, where partner can go, not letting partner work or go to school.
Domination: Always being the boss, having all the power.
Using Children: Using visitation to harass partner, sending messages through the children, turning children against partner by criticizing partner.
Financial Abuse
Controlling all the money, concealing joint assets or shared money, keeping partner impoverished, blowing all the family money.
Physical Abuse
Pushing, slapping, hitting, kicking, choking, hair pulling, biting, using weapons, tying up a person, locking them in a room, preventing sleep.
Sexual Abuse
Forcing another to perform sex acts they do not want to do, rape or physically attacking the sexual parts of another's body.
System Abuse
Violating restraining orders, child custody agreements, using the legal system to harass, telling lies about a partner to police, counselors or the courts.
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