Relationship Abuse Research Paper

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Abuse is only when someone hits or beats another person. Wrong. Abuse takes many different forms. Some people do not even realize that they are being abused, because they just assume that abuse is when they are getting hit. There are many forms of abuse that are only verbal and they have just as bad of effects on health. A few different forms of abuse include psychological, emotional, verbal, sexual, and physical abuse. Abuse hurts you in more ways than just the abuse itself, and it is important to recognize relationship abuse and know how to get away from it. It is also important to know why people may abuse someone, and realize that you cannot ty to fix them, while hurting yourself. Psychological, verbal, and emotional abuse go hand in …show more content…
Gaslighting is when someone makes you feel crazy by making you believe that you can't remember things right. It makes you feel insane because they are constantly telling you that something that you know happened didn't happen, or they say that something they said wasn't said and you know it was, or they say that you said or did something that you know you didn't. The abuser twist the story to make you feel like you don't know what you are talking about, and make themselves sound right. These forms of abuse are non-violent and all done through words, but there are forms of abuse that are violent and do hurt someone physically; one of those is sexual …show more content…
Some people feel entitled to stuff when they are in relationships, but that is not the case, and it is called abuse. Nobody is entitled to your body just because they are in a relationship with you. Sometimes you can go a very long time with no issues, and then sexual abuse starts to become an issue. Many times it is not an issue until after marriage, when your partner may feel like because you are married, then they have a right to sexual encounters whenever they want. Forms of sexual abuse include touching even when told no, demanding that you have sex with them and than forcing it when you refuse, forcing you to engage in porn or prostitution, letting someone else take advantage of you, refusing to use a condom or any other form of safe sex or even taking it off during. If you get pregnant and your partner tries to give jurisdiction over whether you keep or abort your baby, that is also considered sexual abuse. Threatening to leave you if you do not engage in sexual activity with them and videoing you without you knowledge is abuse. Sexual abuse does not just happen to women as many people assume, however, it does happen to them more often. 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men report experiencing an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (Svavarsdottir). Sexual abuse is physical, but there is also a form of abuse actually called physical