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Abuse can be physical,
but more often it is some combination of the following:
- Emotional Abuse
- Name calling
- Constant put-downs
- Lack of support
- Calling your partner fat, lazy, ugly, stupid (etc…)
- Deflecting blame
- Economic Abuse
- Withholding finances as a punishment
- Controlling finances
- Using finances to manipulate
- Threatening to withdraw financial support
- Sexual Abuse
- Forcing sex
- Guilting someone into sex
- Withholding sex in order to manipulate
- Sex without consent
- Using Children
- Using children as a weapon
- Threatening to take the children
- Threatening to hurt the children
- Threatening to have the children taken away
- Threats
- Physical threat, such as raising a hand
- Verbal threats
- Threatening with a weapon
- Threatening bodily harm
- Intimidation
- Acting in a threatening way
- Yelling
- Threatening
- Listing how they can hurt you
- Reminding you of the control they have
- Isolation
- Limiting your time with family and friends
- Jealousy over time spent with family or friends
- Wanting you to leave your job
- Putting limits on when you can leave
- Putting limits on where you can go
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