Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week

FYI - February 4-9 is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week. This is as good time as any to talk to your kids, brothers, sisters, nieces and newphews about dating violence and domestic violence in general. If you don't have enough information, you can visit:

• National Domestic Violence Hotline
• National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline or
• Texas Council on Family Violence

These are some of the signs that were mentioned in the article about North Texas:

• Frequent Texting: 30% of teens in a dating relationship have been text-messaged 10, 20, or 30 times an hour by a partner keeping tabs on where they are, what they are doing or who they are with
• Extreme jealousy
• Isolating the other person from friends and family and monopolizing spare time to the detriment of other friendships
• Telling the other person what to do, what to wear, who to spend time with
• Explosive temper
• Possessiveness

If something about your relationship with your partner scares you or you think something about your relationship is not right and you need to talk, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY).

If you are a teen and you need to talk about your relationship, please call the National Teen Dating Violence Hotline: 1-866-331-9474 or 1-866-331-8453 (TTY). The teen line also offers chat as an option of getting information.