Examples of Domestic Violence:
Using coercion and threats
- Making or carrying out threats to do something to hurt you.
- Threatening to leave, to commit suicide, to report you to the Benefits agencies
- Making you withdraw your statements to the Police
- Making you do illegal things
Using economic abuse
- Preventing you from getting or keeping a job
- Making you ask for money
- Taking your money
- Not letting you know about or having access to family income
Using emotional abuse
- Putting you down
- Making you feel bad about yourself
- Calling you names
- Making you think you are crazy
- Playing mind games
- Humiliating you
- Making you feel guilty
Using isolation
- Controlling what you do, who you see and talk to
- Controlling where you go
- Limiting your outside involvement
- Using jealousy to justify actions
Minimising denying and blaming
- Making light of the abuse and not taking your concerns seriously
- Saying the abuse didn’t happen
- Shifting responsibility for abusive behaviour saying you caused it
Using children
- Making you feel guilty about the children
- Using the children to relay messages
- Threatening to take the children away
- Using contact visits to harass her
Using intimidation
- Making you afraid by using looks, actions, gestures
- Smashing things
- Destroying your property
- Abusing pets
- Displaying weapons
Using Physical and or sexual abuse
- Hitting, kicking, or bighting you
- Slapping, pushing, grasping you around the neck
- Holding you down
- Using any force that causes pain or injury
- Forcing you to have sex
- Forcing you to look at pornographic images
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