Intimate Partner Violence

Women will continue to suffer from domestic violence unless there is some sort of intervention to help them. When dealing with this population, it is essential to create a safe environment where the woman can talk freely about the abuse without any retaliation from the abuser. When someone comes into a therapeutic session, everyone deserves to be treated with respect and care. This in turn will create a sense of hope that a different type of life can be possible. Also, knowing that there is a support system can help the woman begin the process of change. Despite this, the process of leaving the abusive partner is slow (Warshaw, n.d.)

So what makes an abuser? The goal of the abuser is power and control over their partner. Domestic violence can affect all, but more often it is the male inflicting the harm due to their physical advantage and also their societal taught dominating role. The abuser tends to conform to the stereotypical view of the man and women. The man goes out to make the money and support the family, while women stays home to cook, clean, and look after the kids. In knowing this, it is easy to understand why leaving an abusive relationship can be so difficult for the individual being abused, as leaving involves many needed changes and few solutions to the problems.

Taking the step to leave an abusive relationship takes great amounts of courage. Walking away from the aspects of financial security, family for your children, stability (what little may exist), your home and so forth is not an easy decision to make. You make a choice, take that first scary step and trust that if you fall, the pain will be less than the pain you have been experiencing. Oftentimes the pain is not less and in fact, ends up worse than what you left behind.

Women constantly blame themselves, they have low-self esteem, which makes them even more vulnerable to their abuser. They try and please their abuser’s needs, hang on to the promises of change, and strongly believe that if they stay long enough, they will be able to save their situation.

In addition to all these reasons to why women stay in abusive relationships, is because women lose their self-esteem and eventually don’t have the energy to leave.

I agree women stay in abusive relationships for a variety of reasons. Women dealing with abuse as you stated handle the situation differently. Some women are strong enough to walk away from an abusive relationship without any concern of backlash from their abuser and this is usually true for women who endured the abuse for a short period of time. Whereas, women who have lived a long term life of abuse are the ones who struggle most with leaving their abuser. They are the ones that burden themselves with the shame, fear, and the worry that without their abuser, they will not make it. The more women are empowered the slimmer chances of then accepting the life of the

Most women can not afford to just leave their home no matter how horrible it may be. Many women in abusive relationships choose to stay because as bad as it sounds sometimes it's better to stay then live in the streets, especially if you have children. Their financial and job situation may be precarious. Many only have a stable environment because of staying with their spouse. Victims will usual not have enough credit to get an apartment by themselves. After the fact, when you and your children are financially dependent, when the abuser knows where you work, when you can't just drop everything and disappear, a restraining order is just a piece of paper that doesn't save your

Every so often when the situation is observed from an outsider’s perspective it seems simple to just leave the abusive relationship, where as in reality it is more complicated. Women stay in abusive relationships because they are manipulated, scared, threatened by their partner or they feel guilty about leaving

Women who delay ending an abusive relationship are faced with many of the same complex emotional issues and social obstacles that face any of us when we contemplate leaving a partner. We are attracted to partners for reasons beyond the physical, for the good aspects of the person and the happy or comforting moments spent with them. When things are not going well in the relationship, these positive qualities and experiences provide incentives for working out problems. Reinforcing the effects of these incentives is the fact that we are socialized to expect to maintain a serious, committed relationship through good times and bad.

I agree women who are victim of domestic abuse continue living through the turmoil because they don’t believe their isn’t another option. Some women that live through that situation are sometimes victim of abuse from when they children, so this behavior is normal and they don’t deem the abuse as wrong, but rather the norm. It even become tougher for women to leave their abuser, especially when children are involved. Children becomes the catalyst to why some women stay with their abuser, but these women don’t realize it is better to leave abuser than let their children grow-up living in a home were abuse is the norm.

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.

Women stay because sometimes, they have nowhere left to go. She stays because she believes that maybe, the man she once loved will stop the abuse. Women stay in these abusive relationships because they are trapped and they are helpless. The question is not why do these women stay, but why do these men feel the obligation and audacity to batter them.

Unfortunately some relationships result in a partner engaging in violence against another partner, and while not strictly male against female violence, the victim is often the female. The purpose of this study is to explore why, in the context of intimate partner violence, women remain in an abusive relationship in an attempt to fill the theoretical and practical gaps in successful prevention and treatment of those who are participants in an abusive relationship. Currently there is only a single two-pronged approach, group therapy and residing in a women’s shelter, which has not reduced the amount of domestic violence in the last four decades of this practice being the best practice for such incidents. This study aims to understand the motivations for remaining in the abusive relationship to better design treatment and prevention protocols.

What causes a woman to stay in a destructive relationship is by having a fear of her boyfriend when the abuse is involved. If she comes to a decision of ending the relationship he could threaten

According to The National Domestic Violence Hotline, the abused stay in domestic relationships due to fear, embarrassment, low self-esteem, love, and believing that the abuse is normal. For me, these are all true.