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The Walnut Avenue Women’s Center provides a variety of services for the purpose of helping women to improve their life situations. The organization is women-centered, seeking to put women’s experiences at the center of our thinking. We provide services which empower and inform women, their children and their families, enabling those we serve to realize their potential in all aspects of their lives.
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HOW DO I KNOW IF A RELATIONSHIP IS DESTRUCTIVE?
If it hurts or scares you, it’s not love. Relationships should make both partners feel good-about themselves and about each other. The relationship is destructive…
- If your happiness is not important to your partner
- If your ideas and the way you feel about things don’t count
- If you are doing things you don’t want to do
- If your partner is always checking up on you
- If you are not allowed to make decisions
- If you are not allowed to disagree
- If you are afraid of making your partner angry
- If you are punished through silence, humiliation, force or in other ways for not doing what your partner wants
- If you are not allowed to spend as much time with friends and/or family as you would like
- If you are pushed, shoved, shaken, pinched, slapped, kicked, bitten, have your hair pulled or are otherwise frightened or hurt
- If you are threatened
- If you are forced to have sex when or in ways you don’t want to -
- If you would be afraid to leave the relationship if you wanted to
Destructive relationships cause a loss of self-esteem, loneliness, loss of friends, separation from family, anxiety problems in school or at work, feelings of unhappiness, depression or fear. Physical abuse or threats can lead to serious injury, stress-related illness or even death.
