Don’t turn a blind eye. If you are being abused or suspect that someone you know is being abused, speak out and call your Employee Wellbeing partner, LifeAssist.

Physical abuse includes:

• slapping, punching, hitting, kicking, shoving, scratching, biting, throwing things at you.
• threatening or attacking you
• locking you in or out of the house or abandoning you in a dangerous place
• refusing to help you when you are injured, sick or pregnant

Sexual abuse includes:

• making you wear clothes or do sexual things that make you uncomfortable
• pressuring or forcing you to perform sexual acts that you do not want to do
• forcing you to have sex when you do not want to; raping you or threatening to rape you
• forcing you to have sex with other people

Emotional abuse includes:

• insulting you
• making you feel stupid or worthless
• ridiculing your beliefs
• humiliating you in public or private
• ignoring you
• intimidating or harassing you
• being overly jealous or possessive
• accusing you of infidelity without good reason
• isolating you from your family and friends
• preventing you from going to work or school
• attacking your children or your pets
• threatening to kill you or to leave you or throw you out
• threatening to kill himself or go mad if you leave or don’t do what he wants

Financial or material abuse includes:

• taking or spending your money
• preventing you from having a job
• taking or destroying your possessions
• spending most of the money on himself or giving you a very small allowance
• expecting you to account for every cent or do more with the money than is possible
• refusing to give you information about your joint financial situation

 

Source: www.powa.co.za