Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse includes hurting another person's feelings by making cruel, unfair comments or name-calling.

 

Examples include your partner:

v   Name calling

v   Making fun of your ideas

v   Withholding affection as punishment

v   Threatening to leave

v   Criticizing the way u look/ dress

v   Threatening to hurt you or themselves if you leave

v   Telling you what you can/can’t wear

v   Cursing at you

v   Isolation: cutting you off from friends and family

v   Keeping track of everything you do.

v   Confusing you with lies and contradictions

v   Accusing you of being with other people

v   Embarrassing you in public

v   Jealousy

v   Cursing, swearing and/or screaming at you

v   Repeated harassment, interrogation or degradation

v   Attacks on self-esteem and/or insults to your person (name-calling, put-downs, ridicule)

v   Attacks on and/or insults about people you care for, your family and friends

v   Threatening to "come out for you" at work or to your family

v   Controlling and/or limiting your behavior (e.g.: keeping you from using the phone or seeing friends; not letting you leave the room or the house; following you;

v   Monitoring or limiting your phone conversations; checking the mileage on your car; or keeping you from reading material, ideas, activities and places that he does not like)

v   Interrupting you while you are eating, forcing you to stay awake or to get up from sleep

v   Blaming you for everything that goes wrong

v   Forcing you to do degrading things (e.g.: making you kneel, making you beg for money)

v   Using the difference in physical size to intimidate you

v   Criticizing your thoughts, feelings, opinions, beliefs and actions

v   Treating you like a servant or "underling" in matters of household chores and decisions

v   Being extremely jealous, constantly accusing you of flirting or cheating

v   Spitting at or near you

v   Using physical disabilities against you or putting you down for your disability