Emotional/Psychological Abuse

This referrers to a pattern of behaviours that make you feel bad, intimidated, scared, or emotional unsafe. These may include:

• Repeatedly putting you down
• Calling you names
• Telling you that you are worthless
• Monitoring your behaviour or devices
• Threatening you or your children
• Isolating you from sources of support
• Preventing you from accessing your finances or sources of independence, for example, work
• Blaming you for things you did not do
• Ignoring you or giving you the ‘silent treatment’
• Excessive attention or affection to make you feel dependent (known as ‘lovebombing’)