If your partner is making it hard for you to connect with family and friends, you may be experiencing social abuse. Your abuser may make it difficult or impossible for you to go out or have people home, or make such a fuss when you do that it becomes no longer worth it.
Isloation is a key tactic of abuse. Your abuser may be cutting you off from your social network. This makes you more dependent on them and gives them increased power and control.
Social abuse includes:
- Continually putting friends and family down so you slowly disconnect from your support network.
- Preventing you from seeing friends, family, or other people, etc.
- Arguing with you if you see your friends.
- Guilt-tripping you for spending time with other people.
- Accusing you of having affairs when you go out.
- Constantly checking up on you when you are out.
- Stopping you going out because your afraid of their reaction.
No one deserves to be abused. If you are being subjected to any of these abusive behaviours, call us when it is safe to do so. We will help you begin to think through your next move, with your safety as our highest priority.
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