Red Flags...

You May Be In An Abusive Relationship

 IF Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend

• puts you down                                                      gets extremely jeaous and possessive
• constantly checks up on you                                  tells you how you should dress
• try's to control what you do, and who you see       

IF Your Partner Makes You Feel

• like you can't do anything right
• says that No one else would want you
• calls you names (degrading & hurtful)

"LEAVING AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP IS NOT AN EVENT... IT IS A PROCESS."

quote - Lieutenant Mark Wynn

• abused women leave an average of 8 times before leaving for good
• the most common source of ambivalence for women is the desire to end the abuse, but Not the Relationship
• there are approximately 25 female victims of Spousal Homicide each year in Ontario
• between 1969-2002, there have been 11 Renfrew County women murdered by men

 Statistics Canada

•  Half of Canadian women (51%) have been victims of at least one act of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16
• Cost of Domestic Violence in Canada exceeds 4.2 billion dollars annually
• Today there are over 500 Shelters in Canada