If you are in an intimate relationship with someone, is it the healthy situation that you deserve? Answer yes or no to any of the responses below that apply to this relationship.

Note: It is important to remember that sometimes there are no signs that an intimate partner may become abusive.

Does the person I am with

• Get extremely jealous or possessive?
• Accuse me of flirting or cheating?
• Constantly check up on me via calls or texts or make me check in?
• Tell me how to dress or how much makeup to wear?
• Try to control what I do and whom I see?
• Try to keep me from seeing or talking to my family and friends?
• Have big mood swings—getting angry and yelling at me one minute, and being sweet and apologetic the next?
• Make me feel nervous, or like I’m walking on eggshells?
• Put me down or criticize me or post things online to embarrass or humiliate me?
• Force me to send nude or otherwise “inappropriate” photos of myself?
• Make me feel that I can’t do anything right?
• Make me feel that no one else would want me?
• Threaten to hurt me?
• Threaten to hurt my friends or family?
• Threaten to commit suicide?
• Threaten to hurt him - or herself - because of me?
• Threaten to hurt my pet(s)?
• Threaten to destroy my things?
• Hurt me physically? (includes yelling, grabbing, pushing, shoving, shaking, punching, slapping, holding me down, etc.)
• Break or throw things when we argue?
• Pressure or force me into having sex or going further sexually than I want to?

If you answered yes any of these responses, you may be in an abusive relationship. For more information, please contact a campus counselor at the Dickey Health and Wellness Center at (813) 253-6250, a UT victim advocate at (813) 257-3900 or the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay at (813) 234-1234.