Is Someone You Know an Abusive Person?
The Center on Domestic Violence has a great identification chart that helps you know if you're around an abuser, or if you might being unaware that you are being abused. Love sometimes confuses us, and we may minimize what is happening in our life.
A chart has been developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, to help you decide if you are being abused, if you know someone else who is, if you know an abuser, or if you yourself may be demonstrating abusive behavior, the Chart is located at http://www.stoprelationshipabuse.org/pdfs/PowerControlwheelNOSHADING.pdf:
I hope you'll take a few minutes to review the chart, and post any comments you may have about what you read there.
If I can help via a telephone call, please call on me here at Ingenio.
Dr. Judith L. Allen -- (AskDrAllen) at Ingenio, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - Clinical Member AAMFT