Do you…

• Get angry or insecure about your partner’s relationships with others (friends, family, coworkers) and feel possessive?

• Frequently call and text to check up on your partner, or have them check in with you?

• Check up on your partner in different ways? (Ex. Reading their personal emails, checking their texts)

• Feel like your partner needs to ask your permission to go out, get a job, go to school or spend time with others?

• Get angry when your partner doesn’t act the way you want them to or do what you want them to?

• Blame your anger on drugs, alcohol, or your partner’s actions?

• Find it very difficult to control your anger and calm down?

• Express your anger by threatening to hurt your partner, or actually physically doing so?

• Express your anger verbally through raising your voice, name calling or using put-downs?

• Forbid your partner from spending money, or require that they have an allowance and keep receipts of their spending?

• Force or attempt to force your partner to be intimate with you?

• Blow up in anger at small incidents or “mistakes” your partner makes?

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Source: National DV Hotline