| get help now | get involved | get educated | about womencare | talk to us | ESCAPE |
Physical Abuse — Pushing, hitting, shoving, threatening with weapons, sexual abuse also falls under this category. Any violent act imposed upon you by your partner.
Sexual Abuse — Any situation in which you are forced to participate in unwanted, unsafe, or degrading sexual activity is sexual abuse. Forced sex, even by a spouse or intimate partner with whom you also have consensual sex, is an act of aggression and violence. Furthermore, women whose partners abuse them physically and sexually are at a higher risk of being seriously injured or killed.
Emotional Abuse — The intention of emotional or psychological abuse is to rob you of your feelings of self-worth and independence. If you’re the victim of emotional abuse, you may feel that there is no way out of the relationship, or that without your abusive partner you will have nothing.
