CE30.2.d.3HOW DO RELATIONSHIPS

BECOME UNHEALTHY?

Violent crimes: 97% of sexual crime is committed by males 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted by the age of 18 In 87% of reported cases, the women knew their assailants In 46% of the reports the woman was sexually assaulted by her spouse 1 in 5 women has been involved in a sexual attack by a date/boyfriend after the age of 16. Only 8% of sexual assaults are reported to police. Only 1% of date rapes are ever reported.

(Compiled by 1997 Crime Statistics Report and 1993 Violence Against Women Survey, Statistics Canada)

CANADIAN SEXUAL ASSAULT STATISTICS

You believe you can’t live without him or her. You have fewer happy times together, and more time spent on apologies,

promises, anger, guilt and fear. You feel worse about yourself. You feel you have less self-control. You don’t make decisions or plans, waiting to find out what he or she is going

to do. You enjoy time away from him or her less, as if you are killing time until you

can be together again. You keep breaking your promises to yourself to be less desperate (“I won’t call

him”; “I won’t make her tell me everything she did since I saw her”). You feel you can never get enough of her or him. You try to control him or her more.

SIGNS OF ADDICTIVE LOVE

Encourage friends to arrive, stay with, and leave with friends they know and trust in social settings. If you hear people joking about “date rape drugs”, pay attention. Often someone planning to use a drug will joke about it, or seek reactions from people to test it out.

RAPE DRUGS