You might be experiencing domestic violence if your partner:
- Calls you names, insults you or puts you down.
- Often acts jealous or possessive.
- Tries to control how you spend money or your access to money.
- Tracks where you go, what you do online or who you talk to on the phone.
- Prevents you from going to work or school.
- Stops you from seeing family members or friends.
- Threatens to keep you from seeing your children.
- Gets angry or abusive when drinking alcohol or using drugs.
- Tries to control whether you can see a healthcare professional.
- Threatens you, your children or your pets with violence or a weapon.
- Hits, kicks, shoves, slaps, chokes or otherwise hurts you, your children or your pets.
- Forces you to have sex or engage in sexual acts against your will.
- Controls your birth control or demands that you get pregnant.
- Blames you for problems in the relationship or violent behavior, or tells you that you deserve it.