• Kicks, punches, slaps, or bites you (often, but not always, a woman will target a man's groin)

• Threatens you with weapons like knives, guns, baseball bats, irons, purposely scalds or burns you

• Throws objects at you

• Commits violence against your children or pets

• Violates court ordered visitation by willfully stopping you from seeing your children

• Verbally humiliates you in public or in private

• Constantly ridicules and makes fun of you

in public or in private

• Calls you names and berates your self-worth

• Blames you for her/his/their own failures

• Destroys your personal items

• Turns your children against you (parental alienation)

• Threatens to ruin you financially if you leave her/him/them

• Isolates you from family members or family functions, if your family is nearby

• Destroying fixtures in the home (i.e. cabinetry, walls, appliances)