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Abuse is when someone continues to treat you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable after you have told him/her how you feel and asked him/her to stop. There are four major types of abuse: emotional, physical, sexual, and economic. All four types may be used in battering. Emotional or Psychological abuse involves systematically destroying another person's self-esteem by using the following methods: intimidation, harming, or threatening to harm the victim or the victim's pets or loved ones; threatening to commit suicide or to leave; playing mind games; forcing the victim to perform humiliating tasks; extreme controlling behavior, and blaming others for his/her actions. Physical abuse includes kicking, hitting, biting, pushing, choking, hair pulling, restraint, assaults with weapons, torturing, burning, confining, or physically hurting another person in other ways. Sexual abuse includes any forced or coerced sexual activity including marital, date, or acquaintance rape; incest; sexual insults; any type of sexual penetration or touching without consent. Economic abuse includes withholding information about finances; gaining control of another's money and other assets by manipulating, coercing, lying, stealing, borrowing, forging signatures, or misrepresenting facts. |
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| This exit button is a quick, escape link that will immediately take you to Google.com so an abuser will not see this site. This button appears in this same location on every page of this web site. |
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