Emotional Abuse includes:
- Constantly putting you down and calling you names in private and/or in front of others.
- Threatening to harm to you, the children, pets or others.
- Threatening to harm themselves or take their own lives if you leave them.
- Criticising your clothes, hair, body, the way you clean, the way you cook.
- Making you feel like you are “walking on eggshells” by responding to you with erratic, unpredicatable aggression.
- Manipulating and controlling you by making you feel guilty.
- Ignoring you, not listening or responding when you talk.
- Restricting where you can travel to or who you can see.
- Monitoring the petrol or diesel you have used in your car or the distance you have traveled.
- Not allowing friends or family to the house or stopping you from spending time with them.
- Telling your family and friends lies about you.
- Sulking or not speaking to you when you do something they don’t approve of.
- Lying to you or withholding information from you.
- Being jealous of your other relationships with family, friends or colleagues.
- Having other relationships.
- Breaking promises and shared agreements.
- Stalking you.
- Monitoring your whereabouts by following you or using tracking devices on your phone.
- Monitoring your online activity or opening your post and emails.
- Destroying or threatening to destroy your property, belongings or car.
