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RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE IS...
A pattern of behavior used by someone to maintain control over his or her partner. A violent relationship does not have to be
physical. It can be in the form of verbal, physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. In an abusive relationship, one is afraid or
intimidated by the other. Dating violence can happen to anyone!
Warning Signs of Teen Dating Violence: Does your partner ever...
proportion?
• Cause you to be afraid?
• Insult or criticize you, especially in front of others?
• Make you afraid to break up?
• Get aggressive or abusive towards inanimate objects or
• Act extremely jealous?
animals?
• Call you names, make you feel stupid or tell you that you
• Shower you with gifts and promise it will never happen
cannot do anything right?
again?
• Have an explosive temper (“blows up” a lot)?
• Make you feel the relationship got too serious too quickly? • Cause you to feel fear, stress, full of anxiety or depressed?
• Call or text you frequently to find out where you are or
• Pressure you into sexual activity that you are not
who you are hanging out with?
comfortable doing?
• Call you names in an angry/sarcastic or humorous way?
• Threaten to break up with y