Emotional Abuse

Emotional or psychological abuse involves any behavior, verbal or non-verbal, that negatively impacts another person's emotional or psychological well-being.

The following are examples of emotional abuse:

• Name-calling, mocking, yelling, swearing
• Making humiliating remarks or gestures
• Manipulating the children
• Telling you what to do and/or where you can and cannot go
• Interrupting, changing topics, not listening or responding, twisting your words
• Putting you down in front of other people
• Saying negative things about your friends and family
• Preventing or making it difficult for you to see friends or relatives
• Cheating or being overly jealous
• Shifting responsibility for abusive behavior by blaming others or saying you caused it
• Monitoring phone calls