I am surprised at the statistics for abused women in this country. I am even more appalled when I realize that there are many more thousands of women who endure abusive relationships without reporting it to anyone. Under no circumstances should anyone endure abuse in any form or fashion.
Abuse is the result of emotional instability and requires professional help.
In speaking with women, both currently involved in abusive relationships as well as though who have escaped abuse, I realize that there is a seeming inability to recognize abusive tendencies. There is a sense that the abuse is something which is deserved in order to receive absolution for some perceived sin. The woman is very prone to feel that the abuse is deserved and that it is her misbehavior which has warranted such a violent reaction. There is the belief that if she were only a better person, her husband would not have to resort to such violent means of discipline. As children, we are accustomed to discipline in order to mold us into better, more responsible people.