What Is Intimate Partner Violence or IPV?
It is threat or abuse that occurs between two people in a close intimate relationship, and includes current and former spouses and dating partners. What Counts As Abuse? Psychological and Emotional Abuse includes threats, intimidation, put-downs, telling a person’s secrets, stalking, isolating a person from friends and family, destroying a person’s belongings, name calling, insults, public humiliation, yelling etc. Physical Abuse is when there are threats or harm by slapping, hitting, shoving, grabbing, shaking, hair-pulling, biting, burning, throwing objects at a person, etc. Sexual Abuse ranges from sexual advances that make a person feel uncomfortable to sexual behavior that is unwanted or coerced, including insisting, physically or verbally, that a person have sex even though they have said “no.” Abuse of Male Privilege: Behavior that assumes that males have more power than females and that they have special rights and privileges in relationships with women. It involves also belief
