• Your partner calls you names, puts you down, and unreasonably blames you for their problems
• Controls where you go and who you see (this can be subtle suggestions at first and then become more insistent, disrespecting your friends and family)
• Gets jealous easily and demonstrates possessiveness
• Excessive texting and calling to find out where you are and who you are with
• Threatens to harm you, your children, your family or your pets
• Hits, kicks, slaps, shoves, or strangles you
• Destroys property
• Threatens you with a weapon
• Threatens to commit suicide

These are just some of the signs.  If a partner’s behavior creates fear and you feel unsafe to express yourself, you are in an abusive relationship.