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Think Twice!
Relationship Abuse Prevention
and Recovery

Toni McLean
0409 599 887
info@thinktwiceprogram.net
Suite 1, 65 Old Hume Highway
Mittagong NSW 2575

For professionals:

» Training and consultation on partner violence

For individuals and couples:

Counselling & group programs
» for people experiencing aggression or abuse
from partners or other family members
» for people being aggressive
» group programs for anger or aggression
» support group for men who have
experienced partner abuse

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Healthy Relationship
» Loving, mutually respectful communication and behaviour
» A balance between the needs of the individuals and the needs of the relationship
» A balance between togetherness and separateness
» Automatically assuming the best about your partner
» Mutual support and encouragement
» Equality in decision-making
» Mutual trust and intimacy
» Freedom from anxiety and fear when with your partner

Unhealthy Relationship
» Feeling like you just keep having the same old arguments
» Increasingly communicating disrespectfully with each other
» Spending all of your free time with your partner
» Spending no free time with your partner
» One partner sacrificing friends or family for the sake of the other
» One person making most of the decisions without considering the other partner
» One person making choices and decisions for the other
» Constantly feeling anxious or angry when you’re with your partner
» Arguments that escalate into pushing and shoving or other acts of aggression

Abusive Relationship
One or both partner(s):
» Tells the other who to have as friends or isolates the other from family or friends
» Gets jealous; or always wants to know where the other has been
» Checks the other’s phone, mail and email
» Puts the other down and makes the other feel worthless
» Readily yells and screams at the other
» Threatens or frightens the other
» Uses physical violence to get what s/he wants
» Coerces the other to have sex or perform unwanted sexual acts