This is how you can help protect yourself from domestic abuse:
Domestic abuse is the repeated, random, and habitual use of intimidation to control a partner within an intimate or family relationship. The abuse can be physical, emotional, psychological, financial, or sexual and can occur in any relationship. Anyone forced to alter their behaviour because they are frightened of their partner’s reaction is being abused.
- Contact a domestic abuse support group or the police for assistance.
- Plan in advance how you might respond to different scenarios.
- Consider having an escape route from your address.
- Develop a sign or a code word so that family or friends know when to call for help.
- Keep a charged mobile phone with you at all times.