Link opens in new window.

From Safehouse.org

IDENTIFYING ABUSE

Domestic Violence occurs when one person uses power and control over another. It presents itself in many forms, including the following:

• Emotional Abuse
• Name-calling, humiliation, playing mind games
  Isolation
• Limiting contact with others, and using jealousy to justify it
  Intimidation
• Using gestures, looks and actions to create fear
• Coercion and Threats
• Threatening to hurt, leave, or kill
• Economic Abuse
• Limiting access to employment or financial resources
• Privilege
• Creating a difference of power in a relationship, making all decisions
• Threatening to take children away, using them to relay messages, or harassing during visitation
• Minimizing, denying and blaming
• Making light of abuse, shifting responsibility for abusive behavior, minimizing