• SIGNS OF AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP
  Your Inner Thoughts and Feelings
  Your Partner’s Belittling Behavior
  
• Do you:
  feel afraid of your partner much of the time?
  avoid certain topics out of fear of angering your partner?
  feel that you can’t do anything right for your partner?
  believe that you deserve to be hurt or mistreated?
  wonder if you’re the one who is crazy?
  feel emotionally numb or helpless?
  
• Does your partner:
  humiliate, criticize, or yell at you?
  treat you so badly that you’re embarrassed for your friends or family to see?
  ignore or put down your opinions or accomplishments?
  blame you for his own abusive behavior?
  see you as property or a sex object, rather than as a person?