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Domestic violence against men - the uncomfortablereality.

Domestic violence against men is never all the timestraightforward to detect, but it is usually a truly serious danger to the abused person. How do you know if either you or someone you know is being abused in such as way as to be considered a victim of "domestic violence?" And where can you or they go to get information confidentially?

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 abuse, hitting or other spouse or partner violence. It occurs usually between people living in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence against men will likely take on many various forms, most notably mental, emotional, physical, sexual abuse and invariably the threats of abuse. 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, remarkably giving and quite extremely protective. Soon and in hindsight s/he turns out to be terribly inhibiting and quite often frightening. In the beginning with that person, the physical or mental abuse seems as isolated incidents. And that's when the cycle of apologies and assurances to not to do that abusive thing to you ever again.

In some domestic partnerships, domestic violence against males might consist of both persons or partners play-slapping and/or shoving each other around when one or the other gets irritated. Typically neither person sees himself or herself as being mistreated or controlled. Regardless, the adverse affects of those types of disguised violence, however, it will devastate 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 well 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 talking to loved ones, good friends, neighbors and especially other people 5. Tries to control how you spend your extra money 6. Tries to keep control on where you go and even what clothing you decide to 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 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 perform sex acts against your will (Never takes NO as a NO.) 16. Argues that you are to blame for his or her violent behaviors or tells you that you therefore well deserved the abuse 17. Outwardly to you and especially to other people portrays the bruises as a joke or just consensual rough sex that it all is no big deal.

In short, 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.