Emotional Psychological Abuse
- Name calling, belittling, constant criticism
- Screaming at her
- Mocking her
- Putting down her family and friends
- Threatening her about the children (e.g. telling her she will lose custody, saying you will leave town with the children)
- Demanding household chores such as dinner, housework, laundry etc. are done in the way you want
- Abusing or neglecting children and not allowing her to intervene
- Not speaking to her for days at a time
- Using her lack of legal rights to control her (threatening to get her
- deported if she's an immigrant; threatening to kick her out of the house with nothing if common-law)
- Ending a discussion and then making decisions without her
- Telling her she is a bad mother
- Stalking (harassing, following her around town, showing up where you know she will be, watching her at home through windows)
