My husband often teases me, tries to make me jealous, and belittles my appearance.
Domestic abuse can be difficult to identify and insidious in nature.
It may include emotional abuse, economic abuse, sexual abuse, using children, threats, using male privilege, intimidation, isolation and a variety of other behaviors used to maintain fear, intimidation and power. Domestic abuse does not discriminate against race, age and socioeconomic background. No specific type of woman is more prone to being battered by her partner, nor is one type of woman completely safe from abuse. Read the frequently asked questions from our domestic abuse message boards and see if any of the conversations ring true in your life. Patricia Evans, author of The Verbally Abusive Relationship , answered iVillagers' questions in a chat about verbal abuse.