Love is Not Abuse

2. Yelling and screaming is often identified as _____________ abuse.
6. Talking face-to-face about your feelings.
9. One way to defeat dating violence is replacing violent behaviors with ___________________behaviors.
11. Tension is released in a burst of physical, sexual, and/or verbal/emotional abuse.
13. Unwanted kissing or touching is known as _________ abuse.
15. Teen ___________________ Violence is a pattern of physical, sexual, verbal, and/or emotional, abusive behavior in a dating relationship.
16. A person who is aware of the abuse through the abuser's or the target's actions or words.

1. A person who is hurt physically, sexually, verbally, or emotionally by an intimate partner.
3. You shouldn't have to change who you are or compromise your beliefs to make someone like you.
4. An example of this form of abuse is pushing, punching, shoving.
5. Letting the target talk about the abuse, lets them know you are available to listen or help at any time.
7. Making the person feel guilty about leaving the relationship is an example of this form of abuse.
8. Do not act as a "________________________" to help the couple work things out.
10. The abuser shifts the blame for the abuse onto someone else or something.
12. plan Dating ________________ ______________ helps people who are experiencing dating violence to think in advance about how to keep themselves safe.
14. A person who physically, sexually, verbally, or emotionally hurts an intimate partner.
17. Things start to get tense between two people in this phase.
18. Do not accept the abuser's __________________ for abuse. Say clearly that abuse is never okay.