TEEN ABUSE AND VIOLENCE

All relationships should be positive and healthy.  As a teen you may begin to experience dating with a boyfriend/girlfriend.  Checking off yes to any of the questions below may mean you are in an unhealthy, abusive relationship.

1. Your partner calls you names, puts you down when alone or in front of others  Yes__ No__

2. You have to check in with your partner and justify your whereabouts (texting, phoning) Yes__ No__

3. Your partner threatens to harm themselves if you leave them.   Yes__ No__

4. Your partner is jealous of your friends and family and tries to isolate you from them.  Yes__ No__

5. Your partner has extreme mood swings, is angry one minute and sweet and loving the next. Yes__No__

6. Your partner threatens to harm you or others.  Yes__ No__

7. Your partner slaps, kicks, punches or physically harms you in other ways.Yes__No__

8.  Your partner uses guilt trips on you to get their own way. Yes__ No__

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