This is the follow-up post to the one on spousal abuse I wrote a month ago. It is re-posted here from Indies Unlimited
Getting It Right: Why Women Stay | Indies Unlimited
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This is a terrifying topic. I did some research some years ago (for a story which I still haven’t published) and really had to work at understanding this mindset which, as you point out, so often is misrepresented. It’s hard.
Yes, it is hard, Laura, even when you have lived it. Sometimes women who do mange to escape can’t even understand why they stayed so long. It seems that, in the throes of the problem, the mind plays tricks on us.