Abuse of any kind is difficult to deal with. Types of verbal abuse can include the following:

• Does your loved one ignore your feelings?
  

• Is he disrespectful?
  

• Does he withhold approval, appreciation or affection?
  

• Does he walk away without answering you?
  

• Does he criticize you, call you names or yell at you?
  

• Does he humiliate you in public or in the privacy of your home?
  

• Does he tell you that you are too sensitive?
  

• Does he destroy furniture or punch holes in the walls?
  

These are some of the signs, but there are many more that may be observed. Abuse is difficult to deal with if the abuser has Alzheimer