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Women's Health: Dating Violence

Warning Signs: Could You Be An Abuser?

You could become an abusive boyfriend if you...

  • Are excessively jealous.
  • Blame others for your problems.
  • Have an explosive temper and make excuses for it.
  • Criticize and put down your partner a lot.
  • Have a need to control your partner;'s behavior, decisions or friends.
  • Drink heavily or use drugs.
  • Break things, throw things at your partner, hit, shove, or kick her when you are angry.
  • Were raised in a home in which violence was a way of life.
  • Are cruel to animals.

Source:

Three Rivers Free-Net Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh
http://trfn.clpgh,org/womenscenter/datingviolence.htm


Back to Women's Safety: Dating Violence

 

Women's Resource Center
5728 Fernald Hall, Rm 102
Orono, ME 04469-5728
Phone: (207)581-1508
E-mail: wrc@umit.maine.edu


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