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Domestic violence against men - the uncomfortablereality.

Domestic violence against men is not ever at all timeseasy to identify, but it can be a truly serious danger to the abused person. How do you recognize if either you or someone you know is being mistreated in such as way as to be deemed a victim of "domestic violence?" And where can you or they go to get help in complete confidence?

Beleive it or not, the fact is that women are not the only victims of domestic violence.

What are the signs of domestic violence against men?

Domestic violence is also known as domestic maltreatment, beating or other spouse or partner violence. It happens most often between people while in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence against men can take many various forms, most notably mental, emotional, physical, sexual abuse and almost always the threats of mistreatment. Domestic violence occurs without respect to sexual orientation. In fact, it happens in both in heterosexual and same-sex relationships.

Domestic violence against men is often hard to identify. But all too often here is what happens: early in the new and usually romantic relationship, one person seems very attentive, remarkably giving and rather overly protective. Soon and in hindsight s/he turns out to be terribly inhibiting and usually terrifying. In the beginning with that person, the abuse might appear as isolated incidents. And that's when the pattern of i'm sorry and assurances to not to do that abusive thing to you ever again.

In a lot of domestic relationships, domestic violence against a man might consist of both persons or partners play-slapping and/or shoving each other around when one or the other gets angry. Typically neither person sees himself or herself as being abused or controlled. Regardless, the adverse affects of those types of subtle violence, however, it will devastate a relationship and leaving both persons with deep, long-lasting emotional scarring and physical damage.

Domestic violence against men happens both in private and even in public. Here are 17+ warning signs that you might be the victim of domestic violence:

1. Constant, belittling name calling 2. Repeatedly saying hurtful insults or personal put downs 3. Physically forbids you from going out to work or school 4. Slowly and eventually stops or cuts you off from seeing and communicating to loved ones, friends, neighbors and especially other people 5. Seeks to control how you spend your hard earned money 6. Tries to keep control on where you go and even what clothes you wear 7. Is or acts jealous and angrily so 8. Is extremely possessive 9. Frequently accuses you of cheating 10. Becomes an angry, beligerent drunk or gets crazy when high on drugs 11. Has a firearm or other dangerous items and uses them to threaten you with violence 12. Has a history of and may still abuse pets or small animals 13. Has hurt you and/or your children or elderly parent(s) 14. Has hit, punched, kicked, choked or otherwise attacked you while you were sleeping, intoxicated or unable to defend yourself 15. Has raped or forced you to have sex or engage in sex acts against your will (Never takes NO as a NO.) 16. Argues that you are really responsible for his or her violent actions or declares you that you therefore deserved the abuse 17. Outwardly to you and especially to other people characterizes the bumps as a joke or just consensual rough sex that it all is no big deal.

To sum up, if either you or someone you know has experienced any of the above signs of domestic abuse, or been the victim of domestic violence, then please stop right now and call your local police department and report them. There are laws prohibiting physical voilence and state and local resources to help and protect male and female victims of domestic violence.

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