THE LIGHTHOUSE

Domestic Violence Shelter

"Guidance To A Safe Harbor"

(304) 797-SAFE

SIGNS OF ABUSE

Including, but not limited to:

• Putting you down by calling you names, insulting you or making fun of you.
  

• Keeping you away from friends and family and/or convincing your family that you are to blame for family problems.
  

• Preventing you from working or causing you to lose your job.
  

• Threatening to take your children away or report you as an unfit parent.
  

• Making decisions for you, saying you are not capable of making decisions on your own.
  

• Denying you access to money and not allowing you to know how the money is managed.
  

• Slapping, pushing, choking, pulling your hair, holding you down, threatening you with weapons or using weapons to hurt you.
  

• Threatening to hurt your pets.
  

• Reminding you with looks or words that harm will come to you, if you do not obey.