Coercive control does not always include physical violence.

Coercive control became a criminal offence in 2015

Signs of coercive control include:

• Monitoring your activities with family and friends
• Constantly checking up on you
• Questioning your behaviour
• Setting time limits when you are out with friends
• Isolating you from family and friends
• Banning you from seeing certain people
• Stopping you from working in certain places
• Controlling how you spend your money
• Controlling how you dress or style your hair
• Telling you what you should eat
• Making disparaging comments about your figure
• Putting you down in public
• Repeatedly telling you that you’re worthless
• Allowing you no privacy
• Damaging your property
• Using children to report on you
• Getting angry at the slightest little thing
• You are constantly living in fear of upsetting them
• You have to do things in a particular way or they will get angry
• Your needs are not important and never discussed

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