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Domestic violence

Are you experiencing domestic violence?

Does your partner or a family member:

• call you names or put you down
• criticise the way you do things
• make you do things that you don't want to do
• stop you doing things that you want to do
• make you afraid of saying the wrong thing
• check where you are or who you're with
• stop you seeing your friends or family
• frighten or intimidate you
• withhold money from you
• bribe you or blackmail you
• push you, or pull your hair
• slap you, punch you, or kick you
• force you to have sex
• make you to do things that you feel ashamed of
• threaten to hurt you, your children, or your pets
• tell you that it's all your fault
• say sorry after hurting you
• promise that it won't happen again?

If you can answer yes to one or more of these questions, then you are probably experiencing domestic violence - and it will happen again.

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