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Psychological Abuse

  • Ignoring your feelings
  • Making fun of your beliefs
  • Threatening to take your children
  • Manipulating you with lies
  • Degrading women as a group
  • Calling you names like "bitch," "slut," "whore," or "cunt"
  • Telling you that you're "stupid," "dumb," "fat," or "ugly"
  • Refusing to take you places — isolating you from your friends and family
  • Constantly criticizing you and the way you do things
  • Making fun of your friends and family
  • Taking your car keys or money away
  • Threatening to leave you or making you leave
  • Threatening to hurt your family
  • Hurting your children when angry at you
  • Hurting your pets to get at you
  • Threatening to take your children if you leave
  • Criticizing/degrading you in front of your friends, family, children, co-workers, etc.
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