Relationships

Healthy relationships improve your life and make you feel happier.  Healthy relationships need respect, trust, honesty and emotional support, people need to be able to speak openly about the way they feel and, in turn, listened to.

Not all relationships are healthy.  Domestic abuse is a pattern of behaviour on the part of the abuser designed to control their partner. It can happen at any point in a relationship, including after you have split up.  Anyone forced to change their behaviour because they are frightened of their partner or ex-partner’s reaction is experiencing abuse.

Domestic abuse can happen to anyone, regardless of age, background, gender, religion, sexuality or ethnicity.

Domestic abuse is never the fault of the person who is experiencing it.