| How do you end the cycle of domestic violence? For | | | | love for the abuser is real and they are going to stay |
| many of us the answer is simple. Just leave. | | | | right where they are until things work out for the |
| However as Erika Tindill - Executive Director of CT | | | | better. |
| Coalition Against Domestic Violence tells Fox News 61 | | | | All of this may sound strange to people unfamiliar |
| it is not that easy. "The biggest misconception is that | | | | with domestic violence but these reasons are as |
| victims can just leave. Can simply extract themselves | | | | genuine as it gets for the victim. |
| from the situation. Pack up and walk out the door. | | | | But for many others the number one reason the |
| That is not the case." | | | | cycle of domestic violence continues is fear. The fear |
| Ms Tindall goes on to point out points out more than | | | | of what will happen if they do attempt to leave. |
| a few have tried to do just that. "Many victims leave | | | | The organization Coalition for Battered Women |
| several times, six or seven times before they are | | | | reports that when a victim leaves a domestic abuse |
| actually able to leave the situation." | | | | victim tries to leave the relationship the danger to |
| Still many do not make the attempt to get out. It | | | | her increases by seventy five percent. |
| can be financial in that they feel their economic | | | | A domestic violence victim may be killed if they |
| future is totally entwined with the abuser's. Another | | | | continue to stay in the relationship. But after |
| could be family as in staying together for the sake of | | | | repeated warnings from their abuser about what |
| the children (even though the children see what's | | | | would happen if they try to leave, many are not |
| going on and may be the main ones urging the victim | | | | willing to take that chance. |
| to leave). It could also be the emotional. The victim's | | | | |