A good question but hard to explain. Women who are generally in an abusive relationship stay because they are afraid of what their partner might do if they leave. Women are 6 times more likely to be killed by an ex- partner than by a current partner. Scary truth is that many abusers like to apologize or a sure their partner that it was a onetime mistake to make them stay more and get so deep involved in the relationship they don’t know how to escape. There are so many resources to help you with those situation like friends, family, police, doctors, therapist and so forth, but not many people know this but women are constantly getting threaten that if they tell what is going on to them they will kill them or kill anyone they love dearly. Every 6 days a woman is killed by her inmate partner. This kind of abuse not only lower your self-esteem but it also traumatizes you for future relationship where you continue to accept getting abuse because you are so use to It or the fact that you can’t love someone again or trust them to be with them. A lot comes to mind when it you want to leave the relationship, it isn’t as easy as it seems. Many times women are able to leave or tell someone about what they are experiencing which is very strong and amazing but we still have those huge percent that suffer for the rest of their lives and have their lives taken away by their
Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.
Love is a powerful force that bonds people together through anything and everything. Love will make people do anything for the ones they love and sometimes can’t see the bigger picture. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers in “fair Verona” from rival families come together in love.
Love affects what people choose to do weather it is right or wrong. “You’re going to have to make a choose, the girl said carl or us ” (Carver 785). In this example from “Everything Stuck to Him”the boy is faced with his family
What is love? Love is can be consider as emotion or feeling to pleasure or affection. Sometimes people choose our own partner or chosen by our family. Love can be also conducted by destiny, when both peers don’t know why they attracted to one another. When a person loves someone just for a day, or not feeling that they will be together forever, we can consider it as a lust. Love stories are dominant in our generation as people might have experienced different kinds of love in their lives. In Love in time of Cholera, “Why I Live at the PO” and “A Rose for Emily” are the example of love stories, which the flow of the story is about the protagonist’s problems. Lust can be considers as the main reason of conflict in most relationship. Love is complicated and comes in differente forms, can be chosen, destine or lust. Sometimes, loves can create conflict with everyone.
Romanticized Domestic Violence, and all forms of Dating Violence are some very crucial, and critical commodities that unfortunately plague our societies today. According to Timmons, “…dating behaviors and dating violence are entrenched in the various media that surround our daily lives…” (Timmons, 1). Victims’ include countless Men, Women, and LGBTQ individuals, and can come/be seen in many forms. For example, according to Collins & Carmody (the authors of the Deadly Love article) romanticized domestic violence can come in the forms of Physical, Emotional, Sexual, Financial, and Psychological abuse. They also state reasons for this violence. Those reasons include (and as briefly stated), the varying content of different media types such as,
When Leaving Is Not an Option Many women and men seek intimate relationships in order to fill their emotional needs of security, safety and love. Their journey starts off with their loved ones spoiling them with flattering gifts and emotional words. The love they feel is so wonderful and deep that they believe that nothing can come between them. They are so happy and convinced that they will live happily ever after with the one they love. Unfortunately, the fairytale they have dreamt about was only temporary and soon comes to an end. The love story they have ones longed for turns into a horrible nightmare. The emotional words they were once spoiled with turn into howling screams and name-calling. The flattering gifts turn into physical abuse. This relationship is referred to as domestic violence or intimate partner violence. This happens when a partner or significant other declares power, authority and control over the other partner. To maintain this authority and control, the abusive partner uses emotional, physical or sexual abuse over his victim (Alters 27). Victims will desperately look for an exit out of this relationship, but only to be blocked by numerous walls of the despair, fear and misery. Many people are convinced that victims have the option of leaving, but they are too weak and they choose not to. What many people don 't know is, victims of domestic violence have many reasons preventing them from leaving their abusers. In most cases the outcomes of leaving are
Love is either a fickle crime or an ever-changing satisfaction of desire. For some, it can ruin even the brightest minds, while for others, there is never doubt that it is worth living for. Children grow up with fairy tales and anecdotes of wild love stories, enthusiastic over the prospect of love. Yet has anyone considered the negatives of those dreams?
Both “Catch the Moon” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell are short stories with similar ideas and themes. Although the characters and plots differ slightly, the central themes are very similar. In “Catch the Moon”, the love of the main characters
Love is the basis of our existence. It affects our every moment, dreams, and hope for the future. Love has caused wars, ended lives, toppled governments and has been expounded on by poets, musicians, philosophers, and literates throughout the centuries. Research from Syracuse University shows that it takes about a fifth of a second to fall in love and it affects almost every part of our body. Our brain releases dopamine, a natural chemical that gives us energy and optimism. Love is similar to a drug and can become an addiction because it affects our brain much like other drugs by triggering the dopamine reward part of our brain. Love even affects a persons’ heart when a person is in love their blood pressure will lower and has been
William Shakespeare once said “ Love is merely a madness”. Here, Shakespeare is suggesting that love is an experience that simply cause chaos. When people experience love it may drive them crazy not knowing what they have done because they loved the person so much that they lost their consciousness. I agree with the quote and there are many works of literature that prove that the lens is true, some of these works of literature are The Crucible by Arthur Miller and Othello by William Shakespeare.
Everyone has a fear of something in their life. Fear causes a person to be afraid and difficult to overcome that fear. One most conclusive factor women go back to the abuser because they are afraid and fear what will happen if they leave. In other words, due to the abuser having so much control over the relationship it tends to cause threats, violence, or even kill women if they even think about leaving. An abuser might threaten to cause hideous rumors to their partner reputation. Women need to have a safe feeling in their life and for the safety of themselves and family an abuser purposely make their partner fear that it’s their only choice to stay in the abusive relationship. The most violence injuries usually happen when women actually left
In every nation, individuals have seen or experienced violent relationships at some point in their lives. Some people even have a pattern of being trapped in violent relationships. Usually, this individuals that are caught in a love and war relationship are sometimes reluctant to leave. There are many reasons for this social phenomenon that constantly occurs in violent relationships. According to Seccombe, “Intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to violence between those who are emotionally or sexually intimate, such as spouses, partners, or those who are dating” (264). It seems that has two people date, their connections begin to blossom as time goes on. Soon after, they decide to be in a relationship together and may even cohabit with each
There a three example of love in the series, Lily’s, Harry Potter and his friends’, and the Death Eaters. When Harry Potter was only a year old, Voldemort came to his house and killed Harry’s parents. Voldemort didn’t need to kill Harry’s parents but he did anyway because he is an evil person. All he wanted was to kill the child before the he even had a chance to kill him. But Voldemort didn’t understand the power of love. He didn’t understand that a mother’s love is the strongest love there is. When Voldemort came to house to kill Harry he wasn’t able to because his Mom had just given her life in exchange for Harry’s. “Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead… Not Harry! Please… have mercy”. It was then that Voldemort killed her. But Harry wasn’t able to be killed because her death had put a protective charm around
What causes victims of domestic violence to stay? Every year in the United States, One in four women are victims of the domestic violence; however, this is only based on what has been reported to the department of justice (Stahly 2008). While men are also victims of domestic violence, women are more often the victims. Moreover, 90% of domestic violence is male initiated. In severe cases domestic violence ends with victims being murdered. More specifically, domestic violence resulted in 2,340 deaths in the United States in 2007, and 70% of those killed were females (CDC 2012). Many people think that victims have the option of leaving and many people blame victims for putting up with the abuse; what many people don 't know is, victims of domestic violence have many reasons preventing them from leaving their abusers, these reasons include, isolation, having children bounding them with the abuser and lack of financial support. "It 's never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when a prison gets shut down," says Dr. Steve Maraboli (qtd from web). Whether a victim stays or leaves their abuser, the outcomes of both situations are not always as easy as many people predict. In some situations, the outcomes of leaving may be very dangerous for both the victim and her children.