Violence Dating violence includes verbal, emotional, sexual or physical abuse by one partner against another in a dating relationship.
Research shows that violence often occurs between people who are dating.
If you find yourself becoming afraid when your partner gets angry, you may already be caught in the cycle of violence. The signs will vary from couple to couple but may include increased verbal abuse, pushing, staring, shouting, gesturing or other threatening behavior. It may include physical battering, verbal, emotional or sexual abuse. Incidents usually become more serious and more frequent than the ones before, and the time between incidents becomes shorter. As tension builds the cycle will be repeated.