Are you in an abusive relationship?
Know the signs     

Ask yourself these 20 questions and rate your relationship based on the following scale:

Have they:

• Called you names and/or criticised you
• Tried to keep you from doing something you wanted to do
• Prevented you from having money for your own use
• Ended a discussion with you and made the decision himself
• Threatened to hit or throw something at you
• Pushed, grabbed, kicked or shoved you
• Slapped, pinched or punched you
• Put down your family and friends
• Accused you of paying too much attention to someone or something else
• Put you on an allowance
• Used the children to threaten you
• Became upset with you over the way you did household chores or with how you prepared dinner
• Threatened to commit suicide
• Made you do something humiliating or degrading
• Checked up on you, listened to your phone calls, checked your mileage or called you repeatedly at work
• Drove recklessly when you were in the car
• Pressured you to have sex in any way you didn’t want or like
• Refused to help with housework or childcare
• Threatened you with a knife, gun or other weapon
• Told you you were a bad parent
• Stopped you or tried to stop you from going to work or school
• Forced you to have sex
• Cheated on you
• Choked or strangled you
• Threw, hit or smashed something