| Women consistently put up with abuse for several | | | | and also they cannot do anything better. All these |
| reasons. One is their own upbringing which tells them | | | | things are actually a result of the brain washing the |
| that man is superior and they have to depend on | | | | abuser has inflicted on the victims. |
| them for a living. Also, the way they were treated as | | | | Domestic violence is an extremely destructive |
| children. They often hold themselves responsible for | | | | relationship for the woman to have. The sooner she |
| the abuse even if it has been inflicted by a parent or | | | | gets out, the better for her. The woman who is in a |
| anyone else. | | | | domestic violence relationship is battered, insulted, |
| A lot of women in the United States are subject to | | | | humiliated, and controlled. Simultaneously she hopes |
| domestic violence and yet they do not leave the | | | | the partner will change, she believes that trying |
| relationship. The victims of domestic violence are | | | | harder can bring about a change, always feeling that |
| highly resistant to change. Also, the abuser lives like a | | | | she is walking on egg shells. She also feels that she |
| phantom in the victim's mind and the victim will refuse | | | | has no place to go and also is scared of living without |
| to do anything without the consent of the abuser. | | | | support. |
| Women as victims go through several changes in | | | | These are some of the reasons why she would |
| their thinking pattern. They eventually start believing | | | | never leave a relationship. |
| that they are no good, they are not a real person | | | | |