Healthy or Unhealthy?
A healthy relationship is built on this, where both people feel valued and heard.
What is mutual respect?
Repeated name-calling, humiliation, and insults are examples of this type of abuse.
What is emotional or verbal abuse?
This is a limit you establish to protect your well-being, time, or personal space.
What is a boundary?
Domestic violence is always physical. True or false?
What is false?
Taking slow, comfortable breaths and noticing your surroundings can help you practice this.
What is grounding?
When both people can express their feelings without fear of punishment or intimidation, this is present.
What is emotional safety?
A partner repeatedly tells someone they are worthless or that nobody else would want them. This behavior can undermine what?
What is self-esteem?
Saying, "I am not comfortable being spoken to that way," is an example of what?
What is communicating a boundary?
This type of abuse involves monitoring, isolating, intimidating, or controlling another person's choices.
What is coercive control?
Talking to a trusted support person rather than isolating yourself is an example of this healthy coping strategy.
What is seeking support?
A partner constantly checks your phone, demands passwords, and monitors who you talk to. This is a warning sign of what?
What is controlling behavior?
Someone uses money to restrict their partner's access to necessities or prevent them from leaving. What type of abuse may this be?
What is financial abuse?
A healthy boundary focuses on what you will do to protect yourself rather than controlling another person's behavior. What does it protect?
What are your needs, limits, and well-being?
Someone experiencing abuse may stay or return for many reasons, including safety concerns, finances, housing, children, or emotional attachment. Why is judging that person unhelpful?
Because it overlooks the barriers and risks they may face and can increase shame or isolation.
Recognizing a trigger before reacting can help a person use this skill.
What is emotional regulation?
In a healthy disagreement, people can disagree without threats, insults, or intimidation. What skill helps people communicate their needs respectfully?
What is assertive communication?
A partner threatens to hurt themselves, their partner, or loved ones to force someone to comply. What kind of behavior is this?
What is intimidation or coercive control?
Someone says no to physical affection, and their partner respects that answer without pressure. What principle is being demonstrated?
What is consent?
A friend tells you they are being abused. Name one supportive way to respond.
Listen without judgment, validate them, respect their choices, or help them find safe resources.
Instead of reacting impulsively during conflict, a person pauses, identifies their feelings, and chooses a response. What skill are they practicing?
What is mindful decision-making or distress tolerance?
A relationship requires one person to give up friends, interests, and personal choices to keep the other person happy. What is missing?
What are autonomy and healthy boundaries?
Abuse can occur without physical injuries. Name one nonphysical form of domestic abuse.
Emotional, psychological, financial, or other coercive abuse.
A person repeatedly ignores your stated limits. What is one appropriate response you can choose to protect your well-being?
What is reinforcing the boundary, creating distance, or seeking support, depending on safety?
A person experiencing abuse is not responsible for another person's decision to abuse them. Who is responsible for the abusive behavior?
The person choosing to engage in abusive behavior.
Recovery involves learning healthier patterns, rebuilding self-trust, and practicing new skills over time. What does this remind us about progress?
That recovery is a process, and progress does not require perfection