Raising the Red Flag
Does your partner:
- Belittle you, or put you down in front of friends and family
- Verbally abuse you with insulting, demeaning and hurtful language
- Isolate you from your family and friends, to ‘keep you all to himself’
- Accuse you of flirting or having affairs
- Tell you what to wear, who to see, where to go, and what to think
- Monitor your social media, read your emails or texts
- Share photos or videos of you without your consent
- Always want to know where you are, even using GPS to track you
- Stop you going to college or work
- Control how you spend your money
- Blame you for the abuse or arguments
- Deny the abuse is happening or downplay it
- Threaten to kill themselves if you try to break up with them
- Pressure you to have sex or make unwanted sexual demands
- Pressure you to have unsafe sex, or hurt you during sex
- Have sex with you when you do not want to – this is rape
- Make you so afraid that you change your behaviour because you fear what your partner might do to you
- Abuse you physically-slap, punch, kick, bite, burn, choke, pin you down
- Threaten to hurt or kill those close to you, including your pets
- Threaten to hurt or kill you
These are some of the warning signs that you, or a friend or relative, may be in an abusive relationship. Domestic abuse in all its forms is a crime.
