One of the critical causes of women staying in abusive relationships is fear. While they are terrified of many aspects of the situation, one of the deeper heart fears is that no one will love …show more content…
They are heavily reliant on their significant other to provide for them causing them to believe that they can’t make it on their own. If one looks back to the early 1900s this is an extremely prevalent fear. Women didn’t have a significant amount of rights to rely on. They were taught to rely on their husbands to provide for them. If their relationship was harmful, they were taught to endure because that was the only way they were going to be provided for. Today, women have more rights and have a more prevalent presence in the workforce, but the fear of not being able to provide for one’s self is a fear that women