Are you being abused by your spouse, your domestic partner,
your boyfriend, your girlfriend?

PHYSICAL ABUSE includes hitting you, shoving you, slapping you, kicking you, choking you, and assaulting you, or threatening to assault you, with a weapon of any kind.

SEXUAL ABUSE includes any unwanted touching, kissing, fondling, and forcing you to have sex against your wishes. You always have the right to say NO.

EMOTIONAL ABUSE includes insulting you, calling you names, blaming you, threatening suicide if you leave him/her, keeping you from having contact with your friends and relatives, breaking your possessions, threatening or injuring his/her or your children, and injuring or killing his/her or your pets.

If the one you love or used to love is using coercion, threats and physical violence to frighten you and control your actions, you are being abused.

All information on this section is from the web page Life on Brian's Beat -- gay-on-gay violence.