There maybe a separation from family members who should be available to help, but often are not. Sometimes family members who have helped in the past are now tired of helping out, because the situation is chronic, it has gone on for too long a time. Often a woman has low self-esteem. Self-esteem that probably was a problem to begin with and the violence and the abuse is used as proof for that low sense of self. Sometimes people convince themselves that they were deserving of punishment, that they really aren t a very good person.
Victims convince themselves that somehow they had it coming.
Any self-respecting woman would leave that situation. Any good and righteous family would not have that sort of thing take place. So there is a social stigma that comes along. Often belief itself, religious faith is used to justify staying in an abusive relationship. I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago.