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Staying safe during COVID-19A guide for victims and survivors of domestic abuse

☐ Call you names, humiliate and criticise or belittle you?

☐ Use your gender or sexuality as a basis for threats, intimidation or harm?

☐ Threaten to harm you or others that you love?

☐ Threaten to hurt your pets?

☐ Control your access to money and require you to account in detail for what you spend?

☐ Make unwanted advances or force you into unwanted sexual contact?

☐ Hit, shove, grab, kick, bite, slap, throw things, or use other forms of physical violence on you?

☐ Control or discourage your contact with friends, family, work, or the LGBT ‘scene’?

☐ Emotionally blackmail you and threaten to harm themselves if you leave or seek help?

☐ Limit your movement and monitors your whereabouts?

☐ Accuse you of cheating on them?

☐ Prevent you from working or attend school / education?

☐ Refuse to engage in safe sex?

☐ Blames their drinking or drug use for their abusive behaviour?

☐ Use, or threaten to use, a weapon against you?

☐ Damage your belongings?

☐ Intentionally use the wrong gender pronouns?

☐ Deny you access to medical treatment or hormones?

☐ Monitor your communication with others?

☐ Uses your race, immigration status, physical ability and/or ethnicity, against you?

☐ Pressure or force you into marriage without your consent?

☐ Blames you for their behaviour?

☐ Minimises the harm caused by their behaviour?