Domestic Violence: Why Women Tolerate Abuse

National Domestic Violence Hotline

Understanding reasons for tolerating domestic abuse in relationships where women are emotionally, sexually or physically abused, is as complex as understanding why any man would treat a woman in such a deplorable manner in the first place.

 

Both love and domestic violence are learned behavior

The experts say that domestic violence is "learned behavior" and it is not caused by alcohol, drugs or any other outside condition or situation which men normally like to use as an excuse for their behavior.

One must understand that love is also a "learned behavior" and, as strange as it may seem, some women who suffer the devastating effects of domestic violence actually love their abuser. They live each day in hopes of change in the person who initially won their heart.