If Someone You Love Is Hurting You, Please Read This

One in four U.S. women will be abused by an intimate partner (someone she is or has been married to, lived with, had a child with, or dated) during her lifetime. If you think that you might be one of these women, please read on.

Defining Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

IPV also is called abuse, battering, or domestic violence. Whatever it is called, IPV should not happen to anyone . . . but it does. You are experiencing IPV if your partner:

• Calls you names or says hurtful or humiliating things

• Prevents you from getting or spending money

• Threatens you with words, hands, or weapons

• Forces you to have sex or to perform sexual acts that you do not want to do

• Hits, kicks, pushes, or chokes you

• Prevents you from doing things that you want to do (contacti…