WHAT TO AVOID!
Violent Relationships Based on Power and Control
- Using Threats and Coercion
Example: Making and/or carrying out threats
to do something to hurt your partner
- Using Intimidation
Example: Making your partner afraid by
using looks, actions or gestures
- Using Emotional Abuse
Example: Putting your partner down verbally
- Using Isolation
Example: Controlling what your partner
does, who he/she talks to, what he/she reads, where he/she goes
- Minimizing, Denying and Blaming
Example: Denying the abuse and not taking
your partner’s concerns about is seriously
- Using Children
Example: Making partner feel guilty about
children
- Using Gender Privileges
Example: Making all the big decisions –
being the “master of the castle”
- Using Economic Abuse
Example: Prevent partner from keeping/getting
a job
