(8) Your intimate partner constantly puts you down, humiliates, belittles, or lies to you. (9) You are always afraid. Availability of weapons or the threat of their use increases the risk of homicide and sometimes suicide. (10) Your intimate partner destroys things or harms your pets. (11) Your intimate partner calls you names and makes fun of your body and appearance. (12) Your intimate partner is extremely jealous and constantly accuses you of having affairs. In the beginning of a relationship, jealousy feels like love and concern. But, as time passes, this trait becomes entitlement and possession. (13) Your intimate partner slaps, shoves, kicks, hits, burns you, or threatens you with weapons. Substance abuse plays a big role in violence. The abuser uses substance abuse to excuse offensive and harmful behavior. Abusers may have a history of using violence to solve their problems. They may have a bad temper, overreact to little problems of every day life, throw things, punch walls, and have a criminal record for violence. When abusers hit or break objects or make threats, almost 100 percent resort to battering. One in three women in a battering relationship are raped. There are two kinds of rape in domestic violence: one, with weapons; and two, she submits out of fear that if she were to say "No" he would get angry and beat her. .
Domestic abuse is the use of power and control. It takes place in many forms and escalates in severity. These forms display themselves as acts of domestic abuse and generally fall into one or more of the following categories:.
Psychological - abuse that may include emotional, verbal, and financial abuse and may be experienced as intimidation, terrorizing, name-calling, jealousy, destroying property, and eliminating access to finances.
Sexual - abuse that may include denying privacy, forcing performances of sexual acts that are not comfortable, unwanted sexual touching, and partner rape.
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