Does Your Partner:

1. Insult you in public and private?
2. Embarrass you in front of others by his words and actions?
3. Check up on where you’ve been and who you’ve talked to?
4. Criticize you, your friends, co-workers and family?
5. Limit where you can go and what you can do by attempting to control your finances, transportation, time, education, or where you work?
6. Destroy your pets or belongings?
7. Tell you jealousy is a sign of love?
8. Touch in ways that hurt or scare you?
9. Not allow you to disagree with him?
10. Threaten to hurt you, himself, or others if you leave?
11. Intimidate or coerce you into having sex?
12. Blame you for his violent behavior? “If you hadn’t talked to that other guy, I wouldn’t have lost my temper.” “If you had just kept those kids quiet, had dinner ready on time, finished those 200 sit-ups I told you to do, I would not have lost my temper.”
13. Deny that he has an anger problem?
14. Deny that he has caused your bruises, broken bones, burns, cuts, and/or tell people you hurt yourself to embarrass and discredit him?
15. Seek to maintain rigid family boundaries and demands absolute control at all times?
16. Become unreasonably agitated whenever any criticism or perceived criticism is given to him?
17. Have a history of bad relationship?
18. Have a personal history of childhood abuse?
19. Break objects, throw objects, or strike out to hit objects?
20. Frequently quote scriptures regarding gender relationships, and male/female roles to reinforce male power in the relationship, and preaches the importance of the wife’s submission and absolute obedience, no matter what?

If you answered “Yes” to more than one of the above characteristics,
you may be in a potentially dangerous relationship. Please, find out more
about domestic violence and the services available to help.
DO NOT WAIT. TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE!