Why women stay in abusive relationships

Women often stay in abusive relationship mostly because they don't know any different, known often seems better than unknown, so it's hard to leave. Some women don't even realize that they are abused, they feel like they have to do anything they can to please her partner and forget about her own needs. to realize that you are in abusive relationship is a hard step.

Some women see love from her man even when he mistreats her. And some women have specific emotional needs that only abusive relationship can fulfill.

For example, there are different type of abuse, emotional and physical. Physical is pretty obvious and you don't have to wonder about it a lot. But emotional abuse is often subtle and people just accept it as personality difference, that's why it's so much harder to leave when emotional abuse happens. Some women fall in love with their abusers, so she feels if she leaves she will lose a part of herself.

Most women are afraid to leave because they lost all their faith in a good man, and they are afraid they might fall in love with someone worse. Also, if a woman is married, it's really hard to leave if she sees a divorce as sin. So, how do you decide what is abuse and abusive relationship?

Abusive relationship is when you ask someone to be nice to you and protect your feelings, he or she never apologizes and always puts you in the last place on her list. Someone who doesn't care if you are hurt and someone who doesn't make you feel safe.

A healthy relationship should feel safe for both, a healthy relationship is not one sided relationship. Some women are so brainwashed by their husbands that they don't even know that they are abused.

So, to leave abusive relationship, first, requires understanding and different view on things. So many women can be madly in love with the abuser for years, so they can't leave and not have him in his life, only time will sort things out for such women. As you can see, there are many reasons why women stay in abusive relationships.

Women need to assess their current relationship and understand if it's safe for them to stay or not. Emotional and physical well-being is important in every relationship.