Emotional/Verbal Abuse
Emotional/verbal abuse includes:
- Calling you names and putting you down
- Refusing to trust you and acting jealously or accusing you of cheating
- Trying to stop you from seeing family and friends
- Demanding that you tell him where you go, who you call and who you spend time with
- Putting rules in place about how you do things, for example how long you have to answer calls or texts
- Trapping you in your home and stopping you from leaving
- Making threats to hurt you, your children or others you care about including pets
- Giving you the silent treatment
- Blaming you for the way he behaves or saying that you are making it up
- Telling you what to wear, whether you can wear makeup or not
- Telling you that you can’t do anything right
- Threatening that he will have the children taken from you if you leave
- Telling you that you have no rights because of your immigration status and that you will be deported
- Making you feel like a bad parent, telling the children not to listen to you
- Threatening to hurt himself
