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What Is Domestic Violence?
Domestic Violence is when two people get into an intimate relationship and one person uses a pattern of coercion and
control against the other during the relationship and/ or after
the relationship has terminated. It often includes physical, sexual, emotional or economic abuse.
Is your partner abusing you?
Look over the following questions. Think how you are being treated.
  Does your partner…
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 Embarrass or make fun of you in front of your friends or family?
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 Put down your accomplishments or goals?
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 Make you feel like you are unable to make decisions
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 Use intimidation or threats to gain compliance
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 Tell you that you are nothing without them?
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 Treat you roughly-grab, push, pinch, shove or hit you?
  Call you several times a night or just show up to make sure you are where you say you are.
  Use drugs or alcohol as an excuse for saying hurtful things or abusing you
 Do you….
  Sometimes feel scared of how your partner will act?
  Constantly make excuses to other people for your partner's behavior?
  Believe that you can help your partner change if only you changed something about your self?
If you feel you are being abused in any way talk to us at Family Services of Caswell County.
Our Crisis Line number is:
336-694-5655

What can I do to be safe?
Call the police:
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 If you feel you are in danger from your abuser at any time, you can call 911 or your local police.
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 If you are in danger when the police come, they can protect you
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 They can help you and your children leave your home safely
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 They can arrest your abuser when they have enough proof that you have been abused
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 They can arrest your abuser if a protection order has been violated
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When the police come tell them everything the abuser did that made you call.
Find a safe place to go…
It is not fair for you to leave your home because of what your abuser has done to you. Sometimes it is the only way you will be safe.

Call us at the House of Esther. We have a residential shelter that you and your children can come to.

You are not alone and
you don't have to face it alone.
336-694-5655
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