Breaking or striking objects
Don't let abuse (throw) your relationship away!
Breaking or throwing objects to frighten your dating partner
The abuser breaks objects or possessions to scare their partner into submission.
Frightening You
Anything Your partner says or threatens to do to frighten you. Strikes objects to make you feel nervous.
Throwing objects at you
Your partner throws objects at you when they're mad at you or to take their own anger out.
Breaking your posseions
Your partner breaks your possessions as a form of "punishing" you.
Interesting facts:
- Only half of all tweens (age 11-14) claim to know the warning signs of a bad/hurtful relationship
- 13% of teenage girls who said they have been in a relationship report being physically hurt or hit.
- More than 1 in 4 teenage girls in a relationship (26%) report enduring repeated verbal abuse.
- Less than 25% of teens say they have discussed dating violence with their parents.
- Nearly 80% of girls who have been physically abused in their intimate relationships continue to date their abuser.
- ( statistics from http://www.newchoicesinc.org)