Healthy dating relationships

Question 1

Abuse

Answer 1

• About power and control
• Physical, emotional, verbal
• Relationship abuse can happen to anyone

Question 2

What is relationship abuse

Answer 2

Dating violence is a pattern of physical, sexual, verbal and/or emotionally abusive behavior in a dating relationship

Question 3

Do abusers choose to do what they do

Answer 3

Yes. They choose controlling and abusive behaviors

Question 4

Types of abuse

Answer 4

• Physical
• Emotional
• Sexual
• Financial

Question 5

Physical abuse

Answer 5

Any intentional and unwanted contact with you or something close to your body
-Doesn’t have to leave marks

Question 6

Emotional abuse

Answer 6

• Threat
• Insults
• Monitoring
• Intimidation
• Humiliation
• Isolation
• Stalking
• Abuse often starts here

Question 7

Sexual abuse

Answer 7

• Any action that pressures, coerces, or forces someone to do something sexually
• Includes restricting birth control

Question 8

Financial abuse

Answer 8

• Telling you what you can and cannot buy or requiring you to share control of you finances
• Can be very subtle

Question 9

Abuse red flags def

Answer 9

-Signs that a person will become more abusive

Question 10

Red flags symptoms

Answer 10

• Tries to control your behavior
• Calls/texts you excessively – obsessively
• Tells you who to be friends with
• Wants to know where you are all the time
• Tries to make everything your fault
• Is extremely jealous of your friends and family; accuses you of cheating
• Wants to be too involved/serious too fast
• Feels he/she owns you – is possessive
• Criticizes you frequently
• Humiliates you in public
• Angers easily
• Makes you afraid of what he/she will do if you end the relationship
• Threatens you, makes you afraid
• Says he/she can’t live without you

Question 11

Signs its time to move on from a relationship

Answer 11

• You live in past memories more than the present
• When the relationship brings me more pain than joy
• When they expect you to change
• When you keep justifying their actions to yourself
• When they put no effort in the relationship
• When you stay on expecting things to get better

Question 12

Abuse facts

Answer 12

• Verbal and emotional abuse usually start with small incidents
• People often wonder is what is happening is even abusive
• Most abusers have grown up seeing and hearing abuse at home

Question 13

Healthy relationships involbe

Answer 13

• Accountability
• Trust
• Respect
• Support
• Affirmation
• Intimacy
• Open communication
• Negotiation
• Compromise