Is a woman abusing you?

In abusive relationships, men are victims as often as women. The popular story that intimate partner abuse is committed only by men, and not women, and that it is committed only against women, and not men is a cultivated fraud.

If you’re a man, and you’re being abused by your spouse or partner, then you’re already living in a culture unable or unwilling to recognize your humanity. Indeed, you might not even recognize it yourself.

Are you being kept in debt by your partner’s spending habits?

Are you walking on eggshells to avoid triggering your partner’s anger?

Are you regularly insulted by your partner, in public, or in front of your children?

Are your emotional needs disregarded or treated with scorn?

Is your identity as a man questioned when you attempt to address emotional, financial or physical attacks on yourself?

Have your been threatened with the promise of a phoney criminal complaint against you?

If she slaps you, that’s assault.

If she regularly belittles you, shouts at you or humiliates you – that’s abuse.

You do not need to “take it like a man”. In fact, there is no good reason to quietly weather physical or mental abuse against you.

We can help you. We provide counselling, outreach and resources to help you end her abuse against you, with compassion, and without escalation.

Tolerating her abuse against you is not noble, and it’s not necessary.

Call the Vancouver Men’s Help Line 604-559-2526