Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behaviors used by one person to gain power and control over another in an intimate or family relationship.

Questions to Ask Yourself
Does your partner:

• Call you bad names and embarrass you with put-downs?
• Look at you in ways that scare you?
• Take your money or not let you have access to any money?
• Keep you from getting or keeping a job of your own?
• Try to limit your contact with your family and friends?
• Destroy your property?
• Threaten to harm or harm your pets?
• Control what you do or where you go?
• Hit, shove, slap, or choke you?
• Pressure or force you into unwanted sexual contact?
• Blame his/her bad behavior on you?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions you may be in an abusive relationship.