Why People Choose To Stay In An Abusive Relationship

For many years many men and women have to go through the tragedy of being abused by the person they thought they loved. Abusive relationships damage the victim’s life psychically, mentally and emotionally leaving them unaware of when to walk away. In an abusive relationship abuse is used to maintain power and control. Although there are several factors that contribute for people to choose to stay in an abusive unhealthy relationship the number one reason people choose to stay in a relationship is love, or because they are financially and emotionally dependable, religion and cultural beliefs, lack of self-esteem, etc., the reasons vary from person to person.
One of the main reasons why people decide to stay with an abuser is because they are blinded by love according to 65% of respondents, love keeps victims from leaving the relationship since it’s the primary reason why abuse is easily forgiven. Victims being blinded by love believe that being abused is normal because they love their partner so much that despite being abuse they think it’s normal for their partner to abuse them because they are still times when their partner is very loving and …show more content…
In majority women are raised to accept men’s temper tantrums and to believe that men are not perfect and that they must put up with any imperfection that he may have or otherwise they would lose the chance to get love in return. Some people religion practices for example view divorce as a bad thing and must be avoided .The victims get motivated to put up with the abuse because otherwise if they decide to leave their abuser they’ll go against the teachings of their