Abusive Relationships
Abusive Relationships
Although physical domestic abuse is the most serious and tragic form an abusive relationship can take, it is far from the Only one. Abusive relationships can consist of any type of abuse or ill-treatment.
What you need to understand when you think about relationship abuse is that you have the right to feel good in a relationship. Your partner needs to treat you with respect, respect your right to privacy and autonomy, and make you feel good about yourself.
Although the partners in some abusive relationships beat up and try to physically control the person they’re dating, even constant put downs are a sort of abuse. The bottom line is, the abuse doesn’t have to be physical, or even illegal. Anything designed to make you feel small, controlled, or hurt counts.
