Does your partner:

• Embarrass you with bad names and put-downs?
• Control what you do, who you see or talk to, and/or where you go?
• Stop you from seeing or talking to friends and/or family?
• Prevent you from getting or keeping a job?
• Take your money, make you ask for money, and/or refuse to give you money?
• Make all of the decisions?
• Look at you or act in ways that scare you?
• Shove, slap, or hit you?
• Destroy your property?
• Threaten to hurt or kill your pets?
• Intimidate you with guns, knives, or other weapons?
• Coerce you into dropping, or never filing, criminal charges against partner?
• Act like their abusive behavior is no big deal, tell you it's your fault, or deny it happened?
• Threaten to commit suicide if you leave?
• Threaten to harm or kill you?
  

If you have children, does your partner:

• Tell you you're a bad parent?
• Threaten to take away your children?
• Threaten to hurt or kill your children?
  

If the answer to even one of the above questions is "yes," you may be in an abusive relationship.

Sources of Help for Tulane students:

• Educational Resources and Counseling (865-5113; Mondays through Fridays, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm)

• Student Health Center (865-5255; Mondays through Fridays, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm)

• Public Safety (865-5200; anytime)
  

Other Sources of Help:

• National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233; anytime)

• Catholic Charities (523-3755, ext. 2607; Mondays through Fridays, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm)
  

If You are a Woman in Need of Temporary Shelter (including your children, if applicable):

• YWCA Battered Women's Program Hotline (486-0377; anytime)