Affecting young women everywhere, it is most common in high school and college. The three main types of abuse are physical, emotional, and sexual. Dating abuse occurs especially against women. Physical abuse may involve punching, kicking, slapping, pushing, choking, burning, or other actions that would cause physical pain. This abuse is much easier to identify since the signs are visible to others.
Emotional abuse is sometimes much more damaging than physical abuse.
Several studies say that women abused emotionally and physically have said the emotional battering was the worst abuse they experienced. Emotional abuse can involve threatening, terrorizing, insulting, or inducing fear. Verbal Abuse is also connected with emotional abuse. This can occur in a dating relationship, as well as a parent- child relationship. Many emotional abusers isolate their partner from people who know them well.