Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior that one intimate partners or spouse exerts over another as a means of control.  Domestic violence may include physical violence, coercion, threats, intimidation, isolation, and emotional, sexual, or economic abuse.  Everyone argues of fights with their partner or spouse now and then. Here are a couple of questions you should ask yourself.

Does your partner refuse to let you sleep at night?
Does your spouse or partner abuse drugs or alcohol?
Does he beats you down and then he said he's sorry?

     These are some questions that you should ask yourself to see if your spouse is abusing of you or not.

      I'm going to tell you a little story that happened to someone I know.  This started out because the husband was very jealous type. This couple lived in Philadelphia. One day Maria had to come to Manhattan because her mother was in the hospital and David did not want her to come. When Maria went back home he had already had taken some of his clothes to his mom's house and he had taken her keys so Maria had to wait for almost 4 hours outside her house until David came back.  When David finally came back he came back with his whole family and they all started hitting Maria for no reason what so ever. This was very sad cause they all hit her and this happened outside in the street.  So now Maria is not with David anymore and he is trying to get back with Maria but if it happened once it could happen again.

     So I hope you and every person that is being abused listens to this message and don't wait for the last minute. Act soon.

Some of this information was taken from www.abanet.org/domviol/areyou.html