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How to recognise coercive control?

Does a current/previous intimate partner:

  • Call you names, humiliate or degrade you?
  • Control your daily activities or make you account for where you have been?
  • Ever deny you access to money or control what you spend money on?
  • Ever stalked or followed you (physically or by electronic monitoring)?
  • Made you feel isolated or feel that you have no one to talk to (family/friends/doctors)?
  • Ever made threats to harm you, your children, pets or people and property you care about?
  • Ever been violent towards you (pushing/slapping/punching/kicking)?
  • Ever sexually assaulted you?
  • Ever used objects as weapons against you?
  • Ever put their hands around your neck or applied pressure causing your breath to change?
  • Ever threatened to kill you, your children or pets?
  • Ever threaten to hurt your children or pets?
  • Ever hurt your children or pets?
  • Ever harmed you during pregnancy?
  • Ever self-harmed or threatened self-harm or suicide?