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Below are some methods of control that perpatrators of domestic abuse may use to control or manipulate their victims:
- Wanting to be together all the time
- Controlling how you look (i.e. clothes, hair, makeup)
- Excessive compliments and gifts
- Bombarding you with texts, phone calls and social media messages
- Control your finances
- Aggressively breaking things/slamming doors
- Underplaying the violence they inflict on you
- Silencing you when you try to talk
- Isolating you from friends and family
- Being uncontactable for long periods of time
- Insulting you, often passing it off as a ‘joke’
- Changing personalities when there is an audience
- Moving the relationship at a very quick pace
- Dismissive of your feelings
- Making promises to change, but failing to do so
Further help and advice:
Harbour
Harbour is an independent charity that offers support for people suffering from abuse at the hands of their partner, former partner, or other family member.
Phone: 03000 20 25 25 (phone line open 24 hours)
Email: info@myharbour.org.uk
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