Not sure how healthy your relationship is? Answer the following questions as honestly as possible.
Does your intimate partner ever:NeverSometimesOften
1. Embarrass you, insult you, or put you down in front of other people, in private, to your children, or on computer networking sites like myspace, or threatens to do so?
2. Look at you, or act in a certain way that’s meant to intimidate or scare you?
3. Try to control what you do, who you see or talk to, how you look, or where you go?
4. Get angry when you make plans on your own, or try to keep you from seeing or talking to family or friends? Is there a double standard; your partner has freedom to come and go, but you do not?
5. Cheat on you after agreeing to be monogamous?
6. Take your money, make you ask for money, or refuse to give you money?
7. Try to make all the decisions, big or small?
8. Get jealous over any little thing (or nothing), or get angry if you don’t want to have sex?
9. Call, text, or IM you often to check up on you?
10. Threaten to abandon you, or kick you out whenever they get angry, even over minor things?
11. Threaten to take away or hurt your children (or pets)?
12. Encourage your children to participate in the abuse?
13. Act like the abuse is no big deal, or it’s all your fault, or minimizes, or denies doing it?
14. Destroy or damage property (usually yours)?
15. Lock you in, or out of the house, or a room?
16. Intimidate or threaten you with weapons (or even talk about using weapons)?
17. Shove, grab, or hold you down?
18. Slap, hit, pull hair, kick, or bite you?
19. Threaten suicide if you leave, or try to end the relationship?
20. Threaten to kill you if you leave, or try to end the relationship?

 

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