Does your partner, ex-partner, or a family member: Call you names or put you down? Damage your property? Hit, shove, grab, kick, throw things or use other forms of physical violence on you? Threaten to ‘out’ you?Use your gender (or sexuality) as a basis for threats or harm? Threaten to harm you or others that you love? Control your access to money? Make unwanted advances or force you into unwanted sexual contact? Isolate you or control your contact with friends, family, work or the LGBT ‘scene’? Threaten to harm themselves if you leave or seek help? Withhold medicine, or block treatment? If so, you might be experiencing Domestic Abuse.
Safer Places is an independent charity which provides a comprehensive range of services to adults and children affected by all forms of Domestic Abuse, and who live in Mid, West, South, and North Essex, East Hertfordshire, and Southend.