Dating Violence

Dating Abuse/Violence is a pattern of controlling and abusive behavior that someone uses against a girlfriend or a boyfriend. The core of dating violence is power and control.

Dating Violence Can Include:

Physical Abuse:  any intentional use of physical force that creates fear or injury, like hitting, shoving, biting, strangling, kicking or using a weapon.

Emotional Abuse:  threats, insults, name calling, checking in on someone constantly, controlling who they see and talk to and where they go and how they dress, stalking, telling malicious lies, humiliating or intimidating someone.

Sexual Abuse:  Coercing, manipulating or making threats to force someone to have sex, getting her pregnant, getting someone drunk or drugged to have sex, rape and any sexual activity that makes them feel uncomfortable or is illegal.

Stalking:  the willful, malicious and repeated following or harassments of another person. It includes behaviors that serve no other purpose than to annoy, alarm or terrorize someone.

Verbal Abuse: using a range of words used to manipulate, intimidate, and maintain power and control over someone. These Include insults, name calling, humiliation and ridicule, the silent treatment, and attempts to scare, isolate and control.