Help students challenge misconceptions or beliefs that
"support"dating violence

Misconceptions discussed include:

• A partner who calls all the time to "check up" on you is demonstrating his (or her) love.
• If one member of a couple spends money on the other person, the one who has spent the money is owed something in return.
• In order to be a man, guys have to be strong, so they have to be "in control" in dating relationships.
• Victims of dating violence must be doing something wrong; otherwise, they would not be abused. Similarly, if someone is being abused but doesn't get out of the relationship, he or she must like the abuse.
• Women of certain ethnicities are more submissive/exotic/domestic than other women, and thus, they prefer to be controlled in a dating relationship.