Are You Abused Quiz

ARE YOU ABUSED?
Take This Quiz To Find Out.
This quiz is for your own personal use and Self-Evaluation. Answer the questions as honestly as you can true or false.

	Constantly criticize you and your abilities as a spouse, partner, parent, or employee? Cut you down, degrade you, tell you that your worthless? Play mind games with you or use guile-trips on you? Humiliate you in front of other people? Behave in an overprotective manner or become extremely jealous? Dictate who you can talk to or see? Give you evil looks, the kind that you dare not disobey? Use actions, gestures or voice to scare you? Track your mileage and question where you've been? Call you names or fight with you in front of friends or family? Direct obscenities or profanity toward you. Deny the abuse or act like it's not that serious? Not take your concerns seriously? Blame you for "bringing on" the abuse by something you did or didn't do or tell you that you deserved the abuse? Threaten to hurt you, your children, pets, family members, friends, or himself/herself? Prevent you from seeing family or friends? Use family and friends as tools (controlling whether you talk to them or see them) to control your actions. Threaten to take your children away from you? Tell the children negative things about you? Suddenly get angry or lose his/her temper? Lose control? Destroy personal property? Punch walls? Turn over furniture? Throw household items? Use innate objects as weapons to hurt you or someone else near you? Deny you access to family assets like bank accounts, credit cards, and cars? Control all your finances or withhold money from you? Use intimidation or manipulation to control you or your children? Hit, punch, slap, kick, shove, or bite you? Twist your arms, choke you? Pull your hair, squeeze your jaw? Has your partner ever "spit" on you? Prevent you from going places? Tell you where you are or are not "allowed" to go and when? Take or hide your car keys? Pull the spark plug from the engine or flatten the tire? Locked you in a room or closet? Does your partner ever force you to have sex? Force you to do ANY sexual act against your will? Use coercion, manipulation, intimidation, psychological warfare to get you to do anything you do not want to do? Cause you to feel uncomfortable in a bad way? Command when and how often you have sex? Make you feel bad when you don't

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be in an abusive relationship. If this is the case,
even slightly, please take steps now to educate yourself on domestic and sexual violence. Begin by calling
your local shelter for information or counseling services. Research the Internet, Library, your local Book
Store for more information. There is help available for you!