I have read many posts and just want to help with this info to whom ever doubts and wants to identify if they are or have been abused

Examples of domestic violence include:

Intimidation or emotional abuse. Emotional abuse (also called psychological abuse or mental abuse) includes behaviors that make the person feel diminished or embarrassed. Emotional abuse can include verbal abuse and is defined as any behavior that threatens, intimidates, undermines the victim’s self-worth or self-esteem, or controls the victim’s freedom. Examples of emotional abuse are: threatening the victim with

injury or harm, telling the victim that they will be killed if they ever leave the relationship, and public humiliation. Abusers will often employ criticism and fault-finding, which may be a precursor to physical violence, but may also accompany it. This may also include withholding money or affection as a means of controlling the other person, threatening abandonment, hurting or threatening children or pets, or isolating the person from friends and family. Threats of violence (even if they are not carried out) are considered a type of intimidation.

Economic or financial abuse. Abusive partners may use access to money as a means of control. Economic or financial abuse includes: withholding money or credit cards, withholding basic necessities (food, clothes, medications, shelter), sabotaging the person’s job (such as making them miss work or calling constantly), stealing from them or taking money.

Physical violence comprises any behaviors that injure the other person or cause physical pain. Physical abuse can also include behaviors such as denying the person needed medical care, depriving the person of sleep or other functions necessary to live, or forcing the victim to engage in drug/alcohol use against his/her will.

Sexual abuse/sexual assault is any situation in which force or threat is used to obtain participation in unwanted sexual activity and includes marital rape. Sexual abuse may involve a wide range of behaviors. The important component here is that the behavior is non-consensual or makes the other person feel demeaned or violated. Examples of sexual abuse/assault are: rape, forcing someone to perform sexual acts that he/she finds unpleasant, forcing someone to have sex with others or watch others, forcing someone into reproductive decisions.

Pet abuse includes situations in which victims are forced to witness violence against beloved animals. This can be a form of intimidation, be a way to force victims to remain in the relationship or a form of emotional abuse.

Spiritual abuse includes using a person's religious or spiritual beliefs to manipulate, dominate or control them. It may include preventing someone from engaging in spiritual or religious practices, or ridiculing their beliefs or using these beliefs as a way to somehow justify the abuse itself.

Stalking can be defined as the willful and repeated following, watching and/or harassing of another person. While stalking does not always occur within an intimate partner relationship, it has become an area of increasing concern in the domestic violence literature, although still an area of emerging research.