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Name the 4 different types of abuse we discussed.
Physical
Emotional/Psychological
Sexual
Financial
Something abusers do by threatening to reveal personal information or secrets in order to control or manipulate their partner.
Blackmailing
This important element of a healthy relationship involves partners being open and honest with each other about their feelings, needs, and boundaries.
Communication
In a healthy relationship, both partners should feel this—where each person values the other’s feelings, opinions, and boundaries, without trying to control or belittle them.
Mutual Respect
This is something essential in a healthy relationship, where both partners feel confident that the other will keep their promises, be reliable, and not betray them.
Trust
Any intentional use of force to cause bodily harm or intimidate a partner.
Physical Abuse
Something abusers do to make their partner question their own reality or memories, often saying things like “That never happened” or “You’re too sensitive”.
Gaslighting
Something abusers often do to cut off their victims from friends, family, and support systems. This condition makes it harder for their victim to seek help or leave.
Isolation
This term refers to the personal limits someone sets in relationships to protect their emotional, mental, and physical well-being—like asking a partner not to go through their phone without permission.
Boundaries
Something abusers do early in the relationship to make the victim feel overwhelmingly loved and adored, often with excessive gifts, attention, and affection, to make them feel special and needed.
Lovebombing
Actions or words that harm a person’s self-esteem, manipulate, or control their feelings.
Emotional/Psychological/Mental Abuse
Something abusers do to scare or pressure their partner into staying, often through threats, aggressive behavior, or destroying property.
Intimidation
Something abusers do to twist the truth, make their partner feel confused or guilty, and control their decisions through deceitful tactics.
Manipulation
Overgeneralized, often negative, beliefs or assumptions about the characteristics, roles, or behaviors of individuals based solely on their assigned gender.
Gender Stereotypes
Something that occurs during the early stages of an abusive relationship, where the abuser is overly kind and affectionate to create a false sense of security and emotional connection, often right after a conflict or abusive incident.
Honeymoon Phase
Using money or resources to control, manipulate, or exploit a partner.
Financial Abuse
This neurotransmitter not only responds to pleasurable stimuli but can also reinforce harmful patterns, such as becoming addicted to the emotional highs and lows of an abusive relationship—contributing to why victims may feel stuck.
Dopamine
Something abusers do to make their partner feel responsible for their pain or actions, often saying things like “After all I’ve done for you…” to control their behavior.
Guilting/Guilt-tripping
Something that the victim often suffers from, leading them to believe they aren’t worthy of love or better treatment.
Low self-esteem
Name the 4 common negative emotions in relationships we discussed.
Anger, jealousy, frustration, sadness.
Any unwanted sexual contact, coercion, or pressure that violates a person’s consent.
Sexual Abuse
The repeating of patterns of honeymoon (calm), tension building, incident (violence), and reconciliation within an abusive relationship
Cycle of Abuse
Name 3 ways to communicate your negative emotions
1. Respond Instead of React
2. Use “I” Statements
3. Step Away if Needed
Freely Given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, Specific
Name 4 common causes of negative emotions in relationships.
Miscommunication, unmet expectations, insecurity, past trauma, external stress.