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Domestic violence against men - the upsettingtruth.

Domestic violence against men is far from all the timestraightforward to recognize, but it is generally a life-threatening danger to the abused person. How do you identify if either you or someone you know is being mistreated in such as way as to be considered a victim of "domestic violence?" And where can you or they go to get advice in complete confidence?

Beleive it or not, the fact is that women are not the only sufferers of domestic violence.

What are the warning signs of domestic violence against men?

Domestic violence is also widely known as domestic abuse, beating or other spouse or partner violence. It occurs most often between people in a intimate relationship. Domestic violence against men can take many various forms, most notably psychological, emotional, physical, sexual abuse and invariably the threats of mistreatment. Domestic violence happens without regard to sexual orientation. In fact, it happens in both in heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

Domestic violence against men is often difficult to detect. But all too often here is what happens: early in the new and usually intimate relationship, one person seems very attentive, surprisingly giving and rather extremely protective. Soon and in hindsight s/he turns out to be terribly controlling and usually terrifying. In the beginning with that person, the abuse seems as isolated occurrences. And that's when the pattern of apologies and promises to not to do that abusive thing to you ever again.

In a lot of domestic relationships, domestic violence against a man might consist of both persons or partners play-slapping and/or pushing each other around when one or the other gets irritated. Typically neither person sees himself or herself as being mistreated or manipulated. Regardless, the adverse affects of those types of subtle violence, however, it will devastate a marriage and leaving both persons with deep, long-lasting emotional scarring and physical damage.

Domestic violence against men happens both in private and even in public. Here are 17+ warning signs that you may very well be the victim of abuse:

1. Constant, belittling name calling 2. Repeatedly saying hurtful insults or personal put downs 3. Physically stops you from going out to work or school 4. Slowly and eventually stops or cuts you off from seeing and talking to family, friends, neighbors and especially other people 5. Tries to control how you spend your money 6. Tries to keep control on where you go and even what clothes you wear 7. Is or acts jealous and angrily so 8. Is extremely possessive 9. Frequently accuses you of being unfaithful 10. Becomes an angry, beligerent drunk or gets crazy when high on drugs 11. Has a gun or other dangerous items and uses them to threaten you with violence 12. Has a history of and may still abuse pets or small animals 13. Has hurt you and/or your children or elderly parent(s) 14. Has hit, punched, kicked, choked or otherwise attacked you while you were sleeping, intoxicated or unable to defend yourself 15. Has raped or forced you to have sex or engage in sex acts against your will (Never takes NO as a NO.) 16. Argues that you are really responsible for his or her violent behaviors or says you that you therefore deserved the abuse 17. Outwardly to you and especially to other people characterizes the violence as a joke or just consensual rough sex that it all is no big deal.

To sum up, if either you or someone you know has experienced any of the above signs of domestic abuse, or been the victim of domestic violence, then please stop right now and call your local police department and report them. There are laws prohibiting physical voilence and state and local resources to help and protect male and female victims of domestic violence.