What is Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)?
Relationship abuse (or intimate partner violence) includes many types of abuse including emotional, physical, sexual, financial, reproductive, and spiritual abuse. It affects people of all backgrounds, including all racial, cultural, age, sexuality, gender, and religious identities.
According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, warning signs of intimate partner violence/abuse include:
- Tells you that you can never do anything right
- Shows extreme jealousy of your friends and time spent away
- Keeps you or discourages you from seeing friends or family members
- Insults, demeans or shames you with put-downs
- Controls every penny spent in the household
- Takes your money or refuses to give you money for necessary expenses
- Looks at you or acts in ways that scare you
- Controls who you see, where you go, or what you do
- Prevents you from making your own decisions
- Tells you that you are a bad parent or threatens to harm or take away your children
- Prevents you from working or attending school
- Destroys your property or threatens to hurt or kill your pets
- Intimidates you with guns, knives or other weapons
- Pressures you to have sex when you don’t want to or do things sexually you’re not comfortable with
- Pressures you to use drugs or alcohol
The National Domestic Violence Hotline also provides a breakdown of abusive and manipulative behaviors on specific types of abuse, such as physical, sexual, emotional, financial, and more. For more information on sins of abuse, click here.
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