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What is it?
Dating Violence

What is it?

In some relationships, the urge to control and dominate the other leads to dating violence, which triggers fear, insecurity and suffering.
 
Dating violence is a violent or abusive act - it can be a single act or an on-going behaviour - committed by one of the partners (or even by both) in a dating relationship.
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Some forms of dating violence are:


PHYSICAL ABUSE:
  • Pushing.
  • Grabbing or restraining.
  • Throwing objects.
  • Slapping, kicking, punching.
  • Threatening with the use of force or aggression. 

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SEXUAL ABUSE:

  • Forcing the boyfriend/girlfriend to have sexual intercourse even when he/she does not want to.
  • Fondling or touching or forcing sexual acts when the boyfriend/girlfriend does not want to.
  • Forcing or pressurise  the boyfriend/girlfriend to kiss when he/she does not want to or forcing him/her to kiss.

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VERBAL ABUSE:

  • Name calling and screaming / shouting.
  • Intimidating and threatening.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE:

  • Breaking or damaging objects or clothes belonging to the other.
  • Controlling the way the other one dresses.
  • Controlling what the other one does in his/her spare time or during the day.
  • Calling or sending messages constantly to control and frighten the other.
  • Manipulating and causing fear by threatening to break up.

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SOCIAL ABUSE:

  • Humiliating and shaming the other in public, in front of friends and relatives.
  • Checking the other's mobile phone, email accounts or social networks without his/her consent.
  • Forbidding the other to be with his/her friends or family.

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  • Dating violence may include more than one of the forms of violence just mentioned. For example, psychological abuse may occur along with verbal and physical abuse.
  • Both boys and girls can be victims or abusers. The aim of any form of violence used either by a boy or a girl is the same: to hold more power than the other person in the relationship, to hurt and to control him/her.