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1. SEXUAL ABUSE
This is when your spouse forces you to have sex against your wishes. For the woman, it is when your husband beats you, intimidates you, strips you, causes you pain by getting pleasure regardless of how you feel. For the husband, this is when your wife mishandles you especially your penis then bullies you when you cannot rise to the occasion .
2. EMOTIONAL ABUSE
This is when your husband/wife insults you, demeans you, devalues you and makes you feel terrible using hurtful words. It is when your spouse texts you crashing words, shouts at you, makes you scared to talk, silences your voice, puts you down to elevate themselves, shames and destroys your self-esteem .
3. FINANCIAL ABUSE
This is when your spouse manipulates you by making you dependent on him/her financially through discouraging you from growing and working. It is when your spouse mistreats you and uses his/her money to make you powerless and walk over you because you don’t have the means to provide for yourself or the children.
4. SPIRITUAL ABUSE
This is when your spouse forces his/her faith or denomination on you. Your spouse orders you to get saved, forces you to do religious things or to convert or change denominations. Matters of the faith should not be coerced .
5. IN-LAW ABUSE
This is when your in-laws attack you and mock you and your spouse is aware but does nothing; in fact, your spouse encourages it because it weakens you to his/her advantage, your spouse uses their words on you or joins them in attacking you .
6. ONLINE ABUSE
This is when your spouse posts malicious information about you to hurt you or to disrespect you. This is when others online attack you but your spouse does nothing to protect you
7. SOCIAL ABUSE
This is when your spouse destroys your social life and isolates you from people. It is when your spouse due to insecurities makes you stop interacting with other people then mistreats you as you suffer in silence.
8. PHYSICAL ABUSE
This is when your spouse causes you phyiscal harm either by slapping and hitting you or by throwing things at you.
9. MENTAL ABUSE
This is when your spouse causes you horror and fear, by parading a knife or weapon at you, threatening you with suicide or murder to paralyze you and black mail you.
No form of abuse should be found in marriage. If you are the abuser, change your ways, aspire to be better, interrogate why you married, ask yourself how you would you feel if you were the one being abused, ask yourself if you would like your child to be treated the way you treat your spouse.
If you are the abused, shield yourself from the danger that is your spouse, protect yourself and your self-image, don’t allow your spouse to kill you from the inside, talk to someone you trust and who is neutral, don’t see yourself the messed up way your spouse sees you. Run if your life is in danger.