Coercion & Threats

• Making and/or carrying out threats to hurt you
• Threatening to transfer or leave school
• Threatening to commit suicide
• Making you do illegal activities
• Forcing you to drink alcohol or use illicit drugs against your will

Emotional Abuse

• Putting you down
• Not letting you study or do assignments
• Keeping you up all night before an exam
• Calling you names
• Making you feel guilty for things that are not your fault

Isolation

• Deleting contacts from your phone/email
• Keeping you from roommates, family, and friends
• Stopping you from joining organizations or clubs
• Encouraging you stay with him/her over breaks
• Using jealousy to justify his/her actions

Intimidation

• Making you afraid by using looks, actions, and gestures
• Destroying your books, work, computer, etc.
• Displaying weapons
• Sharing plans to harm you/others, threatening pets/children

Minimizing, Denying, & Blaming

• Blames you for the abuse ("if you wouldn't....I wouldn't hit you")
• Denies abuse is taking place
• Minimizes extent of abuse ("I don't hit you, that's real abuse, not yelling")

Using Technology

• Demanding passwords to online accounts
• Texting/calling you constantly
• Monitoring your social network sites
• Using tracking systems, GPS, and/or spyware to monitor your activity

Economic Abuse

• Controlling how you spend your money
• Having you pay his/her tuition, rent, etc.
• Controlling your financial aid, personal income, flex, meal plans, CrimsonCash, etc.

Gender Privilege

• Treating you like you are inferior or his/her subordinate
• Making all the big decisions
• Defining and requiring rigid gender roles