Tensions build, and often elevates into physical abuse.
Battered women are found in every city of this country, every walk of life, and in every social scale. During the separation, one person may stalk the other relentlessly. The woman can literally be in fear of her life. A computerized feature was added to the police computers nationwide. Protective Orders are well intended, but many times, law enforcement officers did not know that a Protective Order existed on an abusive husband, or boyfriend.