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Relationship Violence

Relationship violence is the verbal, physical, and/or sexual abuse of one partner by the other, in an intimate relationship, which has the potential of developing into a long lasting relationship.

Examples of relationship violence are:

Physical abuse - may involve pushing, shoving, hitting, choking, confining, or assaulting with an object or weapon.

Emotional abuse - may involve intimidation, threats, humiliation, insults, pressure, destruction of property, control over a partner’s movements, isolation.

Sexual abuse - may involve sexual relations without consent, unwanted sexual touching or pressure to engage in humiliating or degrading sexual activity.

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