Domestic Violence: The Warning Signs:
This list can help you determine if you (or someone you know) is in a violent relationship. The more of the behaviors that apply, the more dangerous the situation.
* Physical or Sexual Abuse, threats, harassment or stalking.
* Verbal Abuse: name calling, accusing or making humiliating gestures.
* Dispespectful of you and your feelings.
*Putting you down in front of others.
*Pressue Tactics: rushing you to make decisions through intimidation.
*Breaking Promises; not following through on agreements; being unfair.
*Emotional Withholding: not expressing feelings or giving emotional support.
*Minimizing, denying and blaming; making light of abusive behavior.
*Enonomic Control: not permitting you to work or have money of your own.
*Self-destructive behavior: abusing drugs, alcohol or threats of suicide.
What To Do About It:
* If you have been physically abused: GET OUT!
* Call the police.
* Get a protection order.
* Make your home as safe as possible.
* Change locks and making telephones easily accessible.
* Plan and rehearse an escape route.
* Decide where you will go in an emergency.
* Teach children to call the police and a safe relative.
* Pack an emergency bag and hide it.
* Include in the bag: extra money, change of clothes, court documents.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE:
800-799-SAFE
TTY: 800-787-3224
This list can help you determine if you (or someone you know) is in a violent relationship. The more of the behaviors that apply, the more dangerous the situation.
* Physical or Sexual Abuse, threats, harassment or stalking.
* Verbal Abuse: name calling, accusing or making humiliating gestures.
* Dispespectful of you and your feelings.
*Putting you down in front of others.
*Pressue Tactics: rushing you to make decisions through intimidation.
*Breaking Promises; not following through on agreements; being unfair.
*Emotional Withholding: not expressing feelings or giving emotional support.
*Minimizing, denying and blaming; making light of abusive behavior.
*Enonomic Control: not permitting you to work or have money of your own.
*Self-destructive behavior: abusing drugs, alcohol or threats of suicide.
What To Do About It:
* If you have been physically abused: GET OUT!
* Call the police.
* Get a protection order.
* Make your home as safe as possible.
* Change locks and making telephones easily accessible.
* Plan and rehearse an escape route.
* Decide where you will go in an emergency.
* Teach children to call the police and a safe relative.
* Pack an emergency bag and hide it.
* Include in the bag: extra money, change of clothes, court documents.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE:
800-799-SAFE
TTY: 800-787-3224
Want to make $$$$ selling your art? Then Click Here!
A great tool to manage your custody schedule:Click Here!
To read, "The Origin of Life", Click Here!
Click Here! for tips on how to have a clutter free home!
