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To: Melinda in TN
In this day and time, why do women stay with men that abuse them? I told my husband from day one, 40 years ago, that if he ever hits me, we’re done

That's the reaction of most women. But not all.

There are some women who appear to be addicted to the adrenaline rush of being with an unpredictably violent man. They crave that excitement, like some men crave dangerous sports. That's why they keep going back

Erin Pizzy, founder of the UK's first battered women's shelter, made that observation decades ago, and got a lot of flack from feminists over the book she wrote, "Prone to Violence".

6 posted on 01/07/2024 4:04:49 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Yes. Leave. I have heard it all from these women. They don’t want to leave the microwave behind was the one that took the cake.

Get the kids from school and leave. Get your self a job and support yourself and leave.

Oh, another one was well, he makes over a hundred thousand a year. Good one. Great reason to exist as the bass turd’s punching bag.

These women are pathetic. I say that as a woman. Thank God one who who has been threatened but never hit.


8 posted on 01/07/2024 4:13:10 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: SauronOfMordor
They crave that excitement, like some men crave dangerous sports. That's why they keep going back

I have heard people say the sex, when they make up, is fantastic...

9 posted on 01/07/2024 4:15:50 AM PST by marktwain
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To: SauronOfMordor

So, some women like ‘bad boys’. I know some like that.

My mom was a stay-at-home mom when we were little. Dad was verbally abusive but not physical (with her). He was with us. Still, when I got older, I asked her why she stayed. She said, “I have five kids”. Back then it wasn’t as common for women to work outside the home. Mom didn’t even learn to drive until she had to start taking us to school on days we couldn’t walk. Most didn’t have any skills except for raising kids. In a lot of ways, it was a better, more natural, way of life and better for the kids, as long as it wasn’t an abusive relationship. After we were grown, Mom did work outside the home. She eventually admitted to me that even though Dad never hit her, she was afraid of him. I decided early on that I wouldn’t live in that type of environment, but I can understand why women in the 50’s and 60’s did.


17 posted on 01/07/2024 4:51:37 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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