Possible Signs of Abuse compiled by the U.S. Government

All below signs are WRONG and some illegal. You may be abused...if your partner:

• Monitors what you're doing all the time
• Unfairly accuses you of being unfaithful all the time
•  Prevents or discourages you from seeing friends or family
•  Prevents or discourages you from going to work or school
•  Gets very angry during and after drinking alcohol or using drugs
•  Controls how you spend your money and/or use of needed medicines
•  Decides things for you that you should be allowed to decide (i.e what to wear or eat)
•  Humiliates you in front of others
•  Destroys your property or things that you care about
•  Threatens to hurt you, the children, or pets
•  Hurts you (by hitting, beating, pushing, shoving, punching, slapping, kicking, or biting)
•  Uses (or threatens to use) a weapon against you
•  Forces you to have sex against your will
• Controls your birth control or insists that you get pregnant
• Blames you for his or her violent outbursts
• Threatens to harm him or herself when upset with you
• Says things like, "If I can't have you then no one can.

Source for post's content http://www.womenshealth.gov/violence/signs/