what makes woman get stock in a abusive relationship?

Answer 1

Low self-esteem, and a feeling she will never find love someplace else. Usually she gave her word to stick with the man till death does them part, and it should be hard to break a promise, but is proper to do so in an abusive relationship.

Answer 2

As a guy my first answer is going to be a typical guy answer, make-up sex. Alot of raging emotions go into an abusive relationship, but also alot of time. Usually the woman feels trapped because of the total amount of time commited, and no one wants to make a bad investment. Lack of relationship experience also, alot of good guys are out there that can make a woman feel good, but sometimes people just like drama and can't stay away from it.

Answer 3

Sometimes women stay in abusive relationships because abusive attention to them is better than no attention at all. They lack the self-esteem to see that they deserve better than the treatment their partner is giving them. They have often seen their mothers and siblings mistreated in the past by their spouses. It is a hard cycle to break. I know because I was married to a man that thought his fist was the best thing for me each day. It took good friends to open my eyes. I left him and it been six years but I will never repeat those mistakes again.

Answer 4

Emotional manipulation.

Abusers are very good at demonstrating remorse afterwards. They beg for forgiveness and "just one more chance". A period of escalating brutality culminates in violence and is then followed by a period of bliss, during which the abuser is doting and attentive. At the same time, the abuser will subtly suggest to the victim that the abuse is her own fault; and that he -- the perpetrator -- is the real victim for having been "forced" to attack her. The longer the relationship continues, the better the abuser usually gets at this game.

Another reason is similar to why, in extended hostage crises, hostages sometimes develop a strange attachment to their victimizers. Its an extreme form of abandonment of oneself to the person in position of power.

Answer 5

Stuck.

Neglectful/abusive parents. Parents who didn't supervise their children while she was being abused by someone else. Parents who abuse each other. In short, dysfunctional childhood.

It has nothing to do with love. It's her upbringing.

Answer 6

The thought that their partner has changed or that they can be the one thing that can change them. They also associate over-bearing people as people who "care" about them. Similar to how some people feel about jealousy, some women try to make their partners jealous in order to figure out how their partner feels about them. Stupid but true.

Answer 7

Low self esteem, feeling no one else would want her, etc. feeling like she has no other choice. It could be many things but mainly begins with the woman and her thoughts about herself.

Answer 8

i imagine the interest, sex, and medicines supply her non everlasting relief from her self loathing. Deep interior her lives a helpless heartbroken little lady. that is her id. through persistently putting herself in those circumstances she is giving herself a danger to strive against again hostile to the demons in her previous. yet she would not. She submits again and again, which re-inforces her self-hatred permitting the cycle to proceed. Or somehting like that.

Answer 9

Insecurity, low self esteem.....and surviving childhood abuse themselves are a few issues that play a role

Answer 10

fear and/or 'love', basically. Or the fact that they should leave just never occurs to them. Hopefully, though, there's always the day that it just clicks, and they go before they've come to too much harm.