Domestic Violence is often overlooked, excused or denied.

It can happen to anyone.  Abuse is abuse no matter how great or small it may be.
Some examples of abuse are:
Physical: from pulling you around by your shirt to getting laid up in the hospital or even death
Emotional: Verbal, such as yelling, name calling, blaming and shaming.  Other emotional abuse can be isolation, intimidation and controlling behavior.  Those abusers often throw out threats of physical violence.  Emotional abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse.
Sexual Abuse: According to The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, between 1/3 and 1/2 of all battered women are pared by their partners at least once.
Economic/Financial Abuse: An Abuser's goal is to control you.
*Rigidly controlling finances
*Withholding money/credit cards
*Making you account for every penny you spend
*Withholding basic necessities (food, clothes, medications, shelter)
*Restricking you from working
*Sabataging your job (making you miss work, calling constantly)
*Stealing from you/taking your money
Spiritual Abuse: Yell at you for not praying, reading the bible,  not going to church/not helping at church.  Telling you only one way to worship is right.