There are various warnings or signs of abusive relationship. Getting out of an abusive relationship may be regarded as putting yourself in a sticky situation. Prevention is the best cure. If you spot even one of the following signs in your relationship you need to stand up for yourself immediately. Do not make excuses for your partner’s behavior and never try to defend them by saying that it was just this one time. Remember, you can always cut down a tree, but not feeding it when it was just a seedling is an easier option to get rid of it.

Abuse in a relationship may be physical or mental. Signs of abusive relationship in case of physical violence are prominent and clear in the form of body scars or burns. If your partner has ever hit you in a fit of rage you are a victim of physical abuse. It is not important whether you were hit just once or multiple times. What matters is that you were physically assaulted. Even as much as a threat to hit you, scar you or burn you should not be tolerated. Trying to scare you by driving dangerously fast or hitting walls is also considered as an abuse. An abuser may try to manipulate and intimidate you by threatening to end his life or hurt you and/or your children. One must never succumb to such scourges and learn to face the abuser with fortitude.

A mentally abusive relationship is the one in which your partner plays with your head. The abuser makes you feel insecure about yourself, tells you that you’re always wrong, abuses you verbally in private and public, reads your mail, is always jealous of the people you hang out with and even follows you around everywhere to keep an eye on you. These are all signs of abusive relationship in which the victim is being harassed mentally. Other signs of abusive relationship are blaming you for their problems and seething with rage at the drop of a hat so that you always feel like you’re walking on an eggshell. Also, abusing you after having drunk too much alcohol is not acceptable and should not be discarded as something done without one’s senses.

If you are in the early stages of your relationship and see one of the various signs of abusive relationship mentioned above, walk out without looking back. As for the people who are in a long term relationship and have just realized that they are being abused you should either consult a therapist or be prepared to leave your abusers.