5 Signs That Characterize Abused Women

Abused women tend to hide their situation out of fear or shame, so you have to be very attentive to the subtle signs they can send.

Abused women react in a certain way to certain stimuli in everyday life.

There is a way to identify when a person feels humiliated and, for unknown reasons, when they are not able to ask for help or open their eyes to what is happening to them.

Have you ever had doubts about a woman who might be mistreated because you saw strange signs?

Signs that betray abused women

1. Try to hide your skin as much as possible

Although many abused women suffer from psychological abuse, others are subjected to physical abuse and sometimes the beatings are given in inconspicuous places.

If suddenly they start to use more makeup when it is not their habit, or if they do not want to show you their arm, shoulder or another part of their body, they could be suffering from abuse.

How to distinguish that? If you observe anxiety when they try to cover their skin, latent worry, aggressive reaction, or being defensive.

2. Abused women anticipate the wrath of their tormentor

Abused women live in a constant state of alert to prevent the abuser from becoming angry or unhappy with them.

This is why sometimes they avoid asking him certain things or throwing sentences such as: “No, I will not go out with you because my partner does not like it”, “ He works so much that the little time free that he has, he wants to spend it with me. ”

Here, we observe a lack of assertiveness, listening to one’s own needs and a need to be in constant submission to the partner’s desires.

3. They hide information about their life

People who abuse tend to distance their partner from friends and relatives.

In addition, when communicating, abused women hide a lot of information and use multiple excuses not to say what is really going on.

Also, as soon as they find themselves in a conversation and asked something about their life, they respond superficially and try to quickly change the subject.

All of this makes them still live with a lot of stress and anxiety, on the lookout for any word they might say that might not please their spouse, who might get mad at them.

4. Abused women are always on the defensive

As we mentioned above when hiding parts of their body, abused women are always afraid of any friction or physical contact that others have with them.

For example, a simple touch on the arm can make them jump in a disproportionate way. As if they were still waiting for an attack from which they must defend themselves.

You can notice this when someone raises their arm and suddenly the abused woman covers her face as if you are going to hit her.

5. Abused women take all kinds of responsibilities on their backs

Abused women believe they are guilty. And often consider that if their spouse hits them or hurts them, it is because they deserve it.

This is transposed to other sectors of life where they will systematically take all the guilt and responsibilities at their expense. While they do not correspond to them.

This attitude denotes low self-esteem and a tendency to always show off in a submissive attitude.

These women are very fragile. Often, helping them is difficult, sometimes even impossible, because they believe that they deserve what is happening to them.

Their self-esteem is so low that they damage themselves.

Knowing how to pay attention to these signs will help you avoid judging an attitude as bad or negative. So as not to stimulate or to plunge this person even further, who perhaps has real problems in his life.

Abuse continues to be very present in the society in which we live. But there are more and more help available for all women who are looking to get out of this situation.

Remember that if you are feeling lonely and a little lost, there is number 3919, for women victims of violence. It can change your life.