“If a man has been raised to never hit a woman and a woman beats on him, most won’t hit back”.
I agree. I know personally one man that was abused by his wife. To be fair, he wasn’t a “typical” person. By that, I mean he was born a preemie, was short in stature, petite in frame, and wore hearing aids. He married a gal who was short.. but four inches taller than he is and weighed at least 100+ pounds heavier. Long story short, she hospitalized him several times. Finally, his sister visited him in the hospital and asked him what she feared (but no one ever questioned or asked aloud). Could he have defended himself? Yes. However, he was raised to never, EVER hit a woman. He made his sister promise him that she would never tell their Father. He was ashamed but tried to stay married (Catholic). He finally left her and filed for divorce when his sister asked him if he wanted to be buried next to their Mother or closer to her. To be honest, after the stitches, broken eye orbit, broken clavical... it was just a matter of time. Happy ending of the story is he is remarried to a nice woman with two children.
I have to admit, I had 4 older brothers and they weren’t allowed to hit me so I got away with a lot of stuff.