A SELF-TEST
The following questions, provided for PARADE by the Nebraska Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition, should help you to identify the
signs of an abusive relationship. If you answer yes to one or more of
these, you need to seek help. Call your nearest domestic violence hotline.
Does your partner….
1. Isolate you from the people you care about most or from friends you have before you began dating?
2. Frequently embarrass you or make fun of you in front of other people?
3. Use intimidation to make you do what he/she wants?
4. Make you feel there is “no way out” of the relationship?
5. Make you perform sexual acts that you don’t enjoy (against your will)?
6. Threaten you with force, words, or weapons?
7. Use alcohol or drugs as an excuse for saying hurtful things or abusing you?
8. Get extremely angry frequently, and you don’t understand why?
9. Not believe he has hurt you or blame you for what he/she has done?
10.Physically force you to do what you don’t want to do?
*From PARADE, Gazette Telegraph, September 22, 1996.
