You don’t know if someone close to you has experienced domestic violence and is seeing how you’re responding to this situation.

Think before you speak.

“1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking”

Source: https://ncadv.org/STATISTICS 

1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf

Almost half of all women and men in the US have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime (48.4% and 48.8%, respectively)

Source: The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010

Domestic Violence Hotline: 1(800)-799-7233 or visit http://thehotline.org