We are available 24 hours a day to answer your questions and provide help. The question people ask most often is why do women stay in a home or relationship where they are abused. We're not living in some part of the world where women's fathers sell them off to their husbands, and where they would have no way to survive on their own. In the United States and Canada and many other countries, women have full opportunities to go to school and achieve independence. So, it is truly difficult to accept the fact that a large number of women are indeed being battered, and that they continue to stay with their batterer - even to the point that they may end up dead.
Women remain with abusers because of psychological, economic, and social reasons.
Most importantly, they are afraid of the abuser. They are afraid for their lives. This fear rules their actions. I'd leave him in a minute. Sometimes through years of abuse, the husbands or partners have terrorized them into believing that the women cannot get along without them, and the women are afraid of what will happen to them if they leave.