Verbal and emotional abuse includes:

• calling you names and using foul language to make you feel bad
• turning around every argument/disagreement so that it’s always your fault, never theirs
• threatening to hurt you or someone close to you – or threatening to hurt themselves if you don’t do what they want you to
• being jealous and envious of your friends and family, and always criticising them.

Physical abuse can be:

• direct personal contact such as hitting, slapping, punching,
  biting, pulling your hair, kicking, burning (eg. using cigarettes or an iron)
• indirect contact such as deliberately placing dangerous objects in the way so that they hurt you
• breaking/smashing your things.

Unfortunately for lots of girls, they feel trapped in abusive relationships, even experiencing severe physical abuse at the hands of their boyfriends.
This is not OK.

Sexual abuse can be when someone:

• touches or kisses you when you don’t want them to
• forces you to have sex with them when you don’t want to
• makes you do other sexual stuff when you don’t want to.

Controlling behaviour includes:

• not allowing you to hang out with friends and/or family
• checking on you all the time to find out where you are, what you’re doing and who you’re with
• SMS, instant messaging, phoning and contacting your friends all the time to find out where you are
• forcing you to do things against your will (eg. telling you what clothes you should wear)
• invading your privacy (eg. reading your diary, emails, phone messages)
• controlling what you eat/drink.