• Calls you names, insults you, or continually criticizes you
• Threatens to hurt you, your family, or your pets
• Humiliates you in any way
• Damages property when angry (throws objects, punches walls, kicks doors etc.)
• Abandons you in a dangerous or unfamiliar place or situation
• Scares you with reckless actions
• Traps you or prevents you from leaving your home
• Pushes, slaps, bites, kicks or chokes you
• Prevents you from calling for help or medical attention
• Does not trust you and acts jealous or possessive
• Punishes you by withholding affection
• Expects you to ask permission before going anywhere
• Tries to isolate you from family or friends
• Monitors where you go, whom you call, and with whom you spend time
• Does not want you to work
• Controls finances or refuses to share money

Are you experiencing signs of abuse in your relationship?

• Is your partner jealous of your friends and/or tries to keep them away from you?________
• Does your partner show signs of possessiveness by constantly checking up on you?_________
• Does your partner or friend criticize, make fun of and/or talk down to you?
• Does your partner or friend dismiss or ignore things that are important to you, not taking your feelings seriously?_______
• Is your partner or friend overly controlling by bossing you around and giving orders on a regular basis?______
• Does your partner or friend blame you when he/she mistreats or hurts you instead of taking responsibility for his/her own actions? ________
• Has your partner or friend hit, slapped, pushed, bit, or kicked you?__________
• Is your partner or friend reckless and/or do they pressure you to engage in dangerous activities?_______
• Does your partner or friend threaten or scare you in any way?_________
• Does your partner or friend express love and affection by giving you expensive gifts or obsessively doting on you?_________
• Does your partner try to hold you back by showing signs of affection when you are needing to be somewhere important?_________
• Does your partner lose his/her temper quickly?________
• Does your partner speak disrespectively about or to his/her mother?__________
• Has your partner ever abandoned you in a dangerous or unfamiliar place?_________

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, please consider talking to your guidance counselor, school nurse or calling one of the hotline numbers listed in the resource section for help.