What is emotional abuse?

Emotional abuse is when an intimate partner has done any of the following things to you:
(1.) Continually criticizes you, calls you names or shouts at you - My X was great at doing this to me: telling me that I'm sexually inadequate and not a real woman
(2.) Insults or drives away your friends or family - My X separated me from my parents because he thought that my mom was mentally ill
(3.) Humiliates you in private or public
(4.) Keeps you from working, controls your money or makes all the decisions - My X wouldn't let me get a job and wouldn't let me hold onto any of my personal items (ie drivers license and social security card). In fact, the judge had to order him to give them back to me in court.
(5.) Refuses to work or to share money - My X would never go out and get a job even though I wasn't allowed to work either
(6.) Takes car keys or money from you - I would always have to ask my X if I wanted to buy anything for myself and most of the time I wasn't allowed.
(7.) Regularly threatens to leave or tells you to leave - My X use to threaten to take my daughter and disappear.
(8.) Threatens to kidnap the children when angry at you - See #7
(9.) Abuses pets to hurt you
(10.) Manipulates you with lies and contradictions - I'm starting to realize that I never really did know my ex-partner for real


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