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PrietoOrozco916 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:14:56 GMT

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Domestic violence against men - the upsettingtruth.

Domestic violence against men is far from all the timestraightforward to identify, but it is generally a terrible threat to the abused person. How do you identify if either you or someone you know is being mistreated in such as way as to be viewed as a victim of "domestic violence?" And where can you or they go to get information confidentially?

Beleive it or not, the fact is that women are not the only victims of domestic violence.

What are the warning signs of [http://www.domesticviolenceagainstmen.net domestic violence against men]?

Domestic violence is also known as domestic abuse, battering or other spouse or partner violence. It happens frequently between people living in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence against men will take on many various forms, including mental, emotional, physical, sexual abuse and almost always the threats of mistreatment. Domestic violence happens without respect to sexual orientation. In fact, it happens in both in heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

Domestic violence against men is often hard to detect. But all too often here is what happens: soon in the new and usually romantic relationship, one person seems very attentive, remarkably giving and quite overly protective. in time and in hindsight s/he turns out to be terribly controlling and usually terrifying. In the beginning with that person, the abuse might appear as isolated incidents. And that's when the cycle of apologies and promises to not to do that abusive thing to you ever again.

In a lot of domestic partnerships, domestic violence against males might include both persons or partners play-slapping and/or shoving each other around when one or the other gets irritated. Typically neither person sees himself or herself as being abused or controlled. Regardless, the adverse affects of those types of disguised violence, however, it will ruin a marriage and leaving both persons with deep, long-lasting emotional scarring and physical damage.

Domestic [http://www.domesticviolenceagainstmen.net violence against men] happens both in private and even in public. Here are 17+ warning signs that you may very well be the victim of abuse:

1. Constant, belittling name calling
2. Repeatedly saying hurtful insults or personal put downs
3. Physically prevents you from going out to work or school
4. Slowly and eventually stops or cuts you off from seeing and talking to family, friends, neighbors and especially strangers
5. Seeks to control how you spend your money
6. Tries to keep control of where you go and even what clothes you wear
7. Is or acts jealous and angrily so
8. Is overly possessive
9. Frequently accuses you of being unfaithful
10. Becomes an angry, beligerent drunk or gets crazy when high on drugs
11. Has a handgun or other dangerous weaponry and uses them to threaten you with violence
12. Has a history of and may still abuse pets or small animals
13. Has hurt you and/or your children or elderly parent(s)
14. Has hit, punched, kicked, choked or otherwise assaulted you while you were sleeping, intoxicated or unable to defend yourself
15. Has raped or forced you to have sex or engage in sex acts against your will (Never takes NO as a NO.)
16. Argues that you are to blame for his or her violent behaviors or declares you that you therefore well deserved the abuse
17. Outwardly to you and especially to other people portrays the bumps as a joke or just consensual rough sex that it all is no big deal.

To sum up, if either you or someone you know has experienced any of the above signs of domestic abuse, or been the victim of domestic violence, then please stop right now and call your local police department and report them. There are laws prohibiting physical voilence and state and local resources to help and protect male and female victims of domestic violence.

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PrietoOrozco916 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:14:53 GMT