How do You Know if You’re Being Abused
Does the person you love:
- Keep track of your time?
- Accuse you of being unfaithful?
- Discourage your relationships with family and friends?
- Prevent you from working or going to school?
- Anger easily when drinking?
- Criticize or humiliate you?
- Hit, slap, or punch you or your children?
- Threaten you with a weapon or gun?
- Force you to have sex against your will?
If you answered yes to these questions, you may be at risk. Call someone and talk about it. Don’t keep it a secret.
Develop a Safety Plan:
Have the following items hidden in a place where your partner cannot find them, in case you have to leave quickly:
- at least $50 in cash
- small bag with extra clothes for you and your children
- important papers: bank account numbers, check book, social security card (his and yours), insurance policies, marriage license, birth certificates (your and children’s) list of important phone numbers
- sentimental valuables and photos
- special medications
- extra keys for car and house
- DON’T TELL YOUR ABUSER WHERE YOU ARE GOING!
