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Domestic violence against men is not ever all the timeeasy to detect, but it is generally a terrible threat to the abused person. How do you identify if either you or someone you know is being mistreated in such as way as to be viewed as a victim of ?domestic violence?? And where can you or they go to get help in complete confidence?

Beleive it or not, the fact is that women are not the only victims of domestic violence.

What are the warning signs of domestic violence against men?

Domestic violence is also known as domestic abuse, beating or other spouse or partner violence. It occurs frequently between people living in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence against men will take on many various forms, including mental, emotional, physical, sexual abuse and invariably the threats of mistreatment. Domestic violence happens without respect to sexual orientation. In fact, it happens in both in heterosexual and same-sex relationships.

Domestic violence against men is often troublesome to detect. But all too often here is what happens: early in the new and usually romantic relationship, one person seems very attentive, surprisingly generous and quite extremely protective. in time and in hindsight s/he turns out to be terribly controlling and quite often menacing. In the beginning with that person, the physical or mental abuse seems as isolated occurrences. And that?s when the pattern of apologies and assurances to not to do that abusive thing to you ever again.

In a lot of domestic relationships, a href=?http://www.domesticviolenceagainstmen.net?violence against men statistics/a might include both persons or partners play-slapping and/or shoving each other around when one or the other gets upset. Typically neither person sees himself or herself as being abused or controlled. Regardless, the adverse affects of those types of disguised violence, however, it will ruin a marriage and leaving both persons with profound, long-lasting emotional scars and physical injury.

Domestic violence against men happens both in private and even in public. Here are 17+ warning signs that you may well be the victim of domestic violence:

1. Constant, belittling name calling
2. Repeatedly saying hurtful insults or personal put downs
3. Physically stops you from going out to work or school
4. Slowly and eventually stops or cuts you off from seeing and talking to loved ones, good friends, neighbors and especially strangers
5. Tries to control how you spend your hard earned money
6. Tries to control where you go and even what clothes you decide to wear
7. Is or acts jealous and angrily so
8. Is overly possessive
9. Frequently accuses you of being unfaithful
10. Becomes an angry, beligerent drunk or gets crazy when high on drugs
11. Has a handgun or other dangerous items and uses them to threaten you with violence
12. Has a history of and may still abuse pets or small animals
13. Has hurt you and/or your children or elderly parent(s)
14. Has hit, punched, kicked, choked or otherwise attacked you while you were sleeping, intoxicated or unable to defend yourself
15. Has raped or forced you to have sex or engage in sex acts against your will (Never takes NO as a NO.)
16. Argues that you are to blame for his or her violent actions or tells you that you therefore well deserved the abuse
17. Outwardly to you and especially to others portrays the bumps as a joke or just consensual rough sex that it all is no big deal.

To sum up, if either you or someone you know has experienced any of the above signs of domestic abuse, or been the victim of domestic violence, then please stop right now and call your local police department and report them. There are laws prohibiting physical voilence and state and local resources to help and protect male and female victims of domestic violence.

I advocate for stopping domestic abuse and especially a href=?http://www.domesticviolenceagainstmen.net?domestic violence against men statistics/a. No person, man or woman, should ever suffer abuse of any kind or domestic violence in a relationship. Please visit my website for information and resources about the unspoken abuse of and domestic violence agaisnt men by women and other men.

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