JuJuBean-  I asked a social worker why women go back to men who beat them, and in the case in which we were  both involved, the woman actually married the man she put in prison because of his abuse of her.  She said that they feel that they do not have any alternative, or that this is the best deal that they can get.  It is profoundly disturbing.  2020 will mark 100 years of American women being able to vote in national elections, and this type of incident, in which they return to the abuser,  is one reason it took them so long to get the vote.  Sad.