Emotional Violence

“I wish you weren’t so fat. Sometimes you look ugly.”

• Isolating

• Corrupting

• Degrading

• Ignoring

“My partner gets really angry when I talk to other people. They accuse me of cheating.”

• Isolating

• Degrading

• Controlling

• Exploiting

“My ex-partner keeps driving past my house and showing up to places when I’m out without me telling him where I’m going to be.”

• Controlling

• Terrorizing

• Isolating

• Ignoring

“My partner only wants to spend time alone with me. We can’t go out with or hang out with other people because they don’t want to.”

• Controlling

• Ignoring

• Terrorizing

• Isolating

“When I am out with my partner and his friends, it’s like I’m not even there. All he cares about is what his friends are doing and talking about.”

• Ignoring

• Corrupting

• Controlling

• Degrading

“My partner takes nude or semi-nude pictures of me and then shares those pictures with their friends.”

• Terrorizing

• Corrupting

• Exploiting

• Degrading

“My partner is always trying to get me drunk or high, so i’ll do things that I wouldn’t normally agree to.”

• Controlling

• Degrading

• Isolating

• Corrupting

“My partner is very dominant and threatening. I must follow a set of rules. Sometimes she scares me with threats, but I can’t tell if it is a joke or not.”

• Isolating

• Controlling

• Terrorizing

• Degrading

“My partner tells me that I need to have sex with them whenever they say because they need to be satisfied.”

• Exploiting

• Terrorizing

• Degrading

• Isolating

“My partner is constantly criticizing my sister. I know she’s not perfect and she has a point, but she is my sister! I feel embarrassed when she’s around, so I’ve been avoiding my sister.”

• Terrorizing

• Degrading

• Isolating

• Controlling