How can you tell if you are in an abusive relationship?
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Does the person you love:

• Intimidate you, make you feel isolated or alone
• Frighten you with his/her temper
• "Track" all of your time
• Constantly accuse you of being unfaithful
• Discourage your relationships with family and friends
• Prevent you from working or attending group meetings or school
• Criticize you for little things such as your cooking or appearance
• Anger easily when drinking alcohol or taking drugs
• Control all the finances and force you to account in detail for what you spend
• Humiliate or degrade you in front of others by name-calling, putdowns, or accusations
• Make frequent threats to withhold money, have an affair, or take away the children
• Destroy personal property or sentimental items
• Hit, punch, slap, kick, restrain, bite or throw things at you or the children
• Use, or threaten to use, a weapon against you
• Threaten to hurt you or the children
• Force you to engage in sex against your will