Red Flag Behaviour
8 minutes
Quiz
Test your knowledge!
Identify the type of coercion described for each question below:
Question 1. Someone asking you again and again to do something you have already said you don’t want to do.
Question 2. Someone saying, “If you send me a nude, then I will be in love with you forever.”
Question 3. Someone telling you they will leave you if you don’t do what they want.
Identify the type of coercion used in each of the following scenarios:
Question 4. My girlfriend wants me to hang out with her every weekend. If I want to hang out with my friends without her, then she says I don’t really care about her. She says she’ll break up with me if I don’t hang out with her to prove that I care about her.
Question 5. My boyfriend keeps bugging me to send nudes, even though he knows I don’t want to.
Question 6. My partner hinted at breaking up with me, saying I obviously wasn’t committed because I wouldn’t send a nude.
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