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Know the L.I.N.E.

Pressure

L Laughter

I Individuality

N Negotiation

E Equality

  • Social Pressure

  • Cultural/Religious Pressures

  • Pregnancy or Parenting

Conflicting Emotions

Activity

Fear

Believing abuse is normal

Fear of being outed

Embarrassment

Low Self-Esteem

Love

What is essential to a healthy relationship and why?

Activity!

Number your paper 1-9

Healthy Unhealthy Abusive

Sexual Abuse

Why do people stay in abusive relationships?

Examples of Sexual Abuse

Relationship

  • Unwanted kissing or touching
  • Sexual contact with someone who is drunk, drugged, or otherwise unable to give consent
  • Threatening someone into unwanted sexual activity
  • Making someone afraid to say no
  • Repeatedly threatening someone into sexual activity

Refers to any action that coerces someone to do something sexually they don't want to do.

Can also refer to any behavior that impacts a person's activity or the circumstances in which the activity occurs.

An emotional, romantic, or sexual association between two or more people

Emotional Abuse

Examples of Emotional Abuse

What can I do?

Statistics

Non-physical behaviors such as threats, insults, constant monitoring or "checking in", excessive communication, humiliation, intimidation, isolation, or stalking.

  • Telling you what to do or wear
  • Preventing you from seeing friends or family
  • Calling you names and putting you down
  • Making you feel threatened or guilty
  • Threatening suicide if you break up
  • "Gaslighting"

Statistics cont.

What is Abuse/Intimate Partner Violence?

  • 1/2 of youth victims of both dating violence and rape attempt suicide compared to 12.5% of non-abused girls and 5.4% of non-abused boys

  • Only 33% of teens who were in a violent relationship told anyone about the abuse
  • Know that this is not the victim's fault
  • Resources:
  • WSU Counseling Services, (507) 457-5330
  • Women's Resource Center, (507) 452-4440
  • Confidential Gender-Based Violence Helpline

(507) 457-5610

  • loveisrespect.org
  • 1/4 of high school girls have been victims of physical or sexual abuse

  • Women between the ages of 16-24 experience the highest rate of IPV

  • Victims at a higher risk for substance abuse, eating disorders, risky sexual behavior, and further domestic violence

"Relationship"

vs.

"Intimate Partner Violence"

Physical Abuse

  • Takes many forms
  • Includes many unhealthy behaviors toward a partner
  • Does not only include physical violence.

Examples of Physical Abuse

Any intentional and unwanted contact with you or something close to your body.

Sometimes abusive behavior does not cause pain or even leave a bruise, but it's still unhealthy.

  • Pulling your hair
  • Pushing you around
  • Grabbing your face to make you look at them
  • Grabbing your clothing
  • Using a weapon
  • Throwing something at you
  • Grabbing you to prevent you from leaving
  • Scratching, punching, biting, strangling, kicking

Cute or Creepy?: How To Spot a Loser Lover

Abuse Specific in LGBTQ Relationships

Know the signs of dating abuse and how to respond

Why do people abuse their partners?

  • Disrespecting your chosen gender pronouns or name
  • Threatening to "out" you
  • Telling you that you are not a "real" lesbian, bisexual, trans* person, or whatever you identify as

Key Points About Abuse

A few reasons...

The bottom line...

It's not love!!

  • Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings

  • Abuse and respect are opposites

  • Abusers are more conscious of what they are doing than they appear to be

  • Abusers are unwilling to be nonabusive, not unable

  • Victims are not making it up!
  • Power

  • Entitlement

  • Learned in childhood

  • Privilege
  • Male, white, cisgender, etc.
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