You are OK.

According to the answers given to us, there are no red flags and seems like you are in a Healthy Relationship.

Your Next Steps

1

Take care of Yourself

It is important more than ever to take care of yourself mentally and physically by eating well and having a balanced life.

2

Look for Warning Signs

It is important to look for the little and subtle signs that might indicate that early warning signs of Domestic Violence from your partner. Do not stay too long to act on it.

Types and Signs of Abuse

Do look out for these signs, as they might give early warning signs for Domestic Violence

Signs of Physical Abuse

  • Hitting
  • Slapping
  • Punching
  • Biting
  • Choking
  • Shoving
  • Pulling Your Hair
  • Causing You Fear by Looks, Actions, or Gestures
  • Forbidding You From Eating or Falling Asleep
  • Preventing You From Calling for Help
  • Harming the Children
  • Driving Dangerously When You Are in the Car
  • Forcing the Use of Drugs or Alcohol

Signs of Psychological Abuse

  • Putting You Down
  • Shaming and Humiliating You
  • Criticising You Constantly
  • Undermining Your Self-worth
  • Name-calling
  • Threatening to Harm the Children
  • Manipulating You Into Thinking That You Are Becoming Insane or Making You Doubt Your Perception of Reality (Gaslighting)
  • Blaming You for the Abuse
  • Playing the Victim
  • Denying or Minimising the Abuse
  • Guiltripping
  • Threatening to Harm Themselves if You Don’t Comply With Their Demands

Signs of Sexual Abuse

  • Forcing You Into Sexual Acts Without Your Consent
  • Forcing You to Dress in a Sexual Way
  • Treating You in a Sexually Demeaning Manner
  • Forcing You to View of Pornography
  • Hurting With Objects During Sex
  • Making You Feel Like You Owe Them Sex
  • Saying Things Such as: “Sex is the Way to Prove Your Love”, “if I Don’t Get Sex From You, I’ll Get It Somewhere Else”
  • Refusing to Use a Condom
  • Preventing You From Taking Contraceptives
  • Forcing You to or Preventing You From Getting an Abortion

Signs of Social Abuse

  • Preventing You From Leaving Home or Contacting Friends or Family
  • Undermining Your Relationship With Friends and Family
  • Monitoring Your Movements
  • Constantly Texting or Calling to Find Out Where You Are and Whom You’re With

Signs of Financial Abuse

  • Making You Economically Dependent by Maintaining Complete Control Over Financial Resources
  • Withholding Access to Money or Giving an Allowance and Closely Monitoring Expenses
  • Preventing You From Working or Preventing Access From Bank Accounts
  • Sabotaging Your Career
  • Taking Loans in Your Name Through Coercion
  • Forcing You to Hand Over Your Salary

Signs of Technological Abuse

  • Using Technology or Sites Like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Whatsapp to Monitor, Bully, Harass, Insult or Stalk You
  • Sending Explicit Videos or Porn Without Your Consent
  • Forcing You to Send Intimate Photos

Your Responses

  • Emergency: No
  • Fear of the Partner: No
  • Being Controlled by the Partner: No
  • Presence of Power Imbalance in the Relationship: No

Developed for:

for your safety and well being