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Domestic violence against men - the upsettingtruth.

Domestic violence against men is never all the timestraightforward to identify, but it can be a serious danger to the abused person. How do you fully understand if either you or someone you know is being mistreated in such as way as to be viewed as a victim of "domestic violence?" And where can you or they go to get advice in complete confidence?

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

What are the warning signs of domestic violence against men?

Domestic violence is also widely known as domestic maltreatment, beating or other spouse or partner violence. It happens most frequently between people living in a close relationship. Domestic violence against men can take on many various forms, such as psychological, 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 troublesome to detect. But all too often here is what happens: early in the new and usually romantic relationship, one person seems very attentive, surprisingly giving and rather overly protective. in time and in hindsight s/he turns out to be terribly inhibiting and quite often menacing. In the beginning with that person, the abuse might appear as isolated occurrences. And that's when the cycle 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 men might include both persons or partners play-slapping and/or pushing each other around when one or the other gets angry. Typically neither person sees himself or herself as being mistreated or manipulated. Regardless, the adverse affects of those types of subtle violence, however, it will ruin a relationship and leaving both persons with profound, 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 may very well be the victim of abuse:

1. Constant, belittling name calling 2. Repeatedly saying hurtful insults or personal put downs 3. Physically prevents you from going out to work or school 4. Slowly and eventually stops or cuts you off from seeing and communicating to family, friends, neighbors and especially strangers 5. Tries to restrain how you spend your personal savings 6. Tries to control 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 being unfaithful 10. Becomes an angry, beligerent drunk or gets crazy when high on drugs 11. Has a handgun or other dangerous weapons 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 assaulted 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 says you that you therefore well deserved the abuse 17. Outwardly to you and especially to others portrays 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.