Reason #6 Women Stay in Bad Relationships

This is the next in my series, 7 Reasons Women Stay in Bad Relationships.

The sixth reason women too often continue in relationship with an abusive man is because they simply cannot believe that their man is as different from they as he apparently is when he's abusive. A woman in an abusive relationship tends to think--- to instinctively believe---that her man's abusive behavior is, essentially, an act. She thinks it's not part of who he really is.

She clings very tightly to the conviction that he's so much better than that.

A woman whose man periodically abuses her looks into her own heart, and sees a loving, caring, gentle person who only wants what's best for herself and those whom she loves. Then she looks at her man, and can't help but think that his abusive behavior is some kind of foreign, freak aberration, a terrible, alien force that for some unfathomable reason sometimes comes over him, changes him, works its evil magic, and then disappears again.

"He just can't be so different than me," she thinks. "He's a human, after all. And he loves. He loves his children. He loves me. I know he does. He shows me that, too. It's just this ... evil that comes over him. But that evil is not who he really is. It's something he becomes. When it happens, it's almost like he can't help himself."

She thinks, "Someday his demons will once and for all flee him. He'll beat them. We'll beat them. And then I'll have the man I've always known my man really is."

If you're a woman in an abusive relationship who recognizes these thought patterns as your own, think this: Rabid Dog.

A rabid dog can be just as loving, cuddly and respectful as any other dog. But then, suddenly (and literally) he snaps, and goes crazy violent. Then he calms down again, and becomes just as sweet as can be. Until he has another attack.

An abusive man has psychological rabies. He has a disease. It's a curable one---but it is a disease. And just like a person with rabies can't get rid of them without going to a doctor and undertaking intense, painful, long-term medical therapy, so an abusive man can't get rid of what turns him crazy without going to a trained mental health counselor, and undertaking intense, painful, long-term treatment.

An abusive man needs immediate, serious, outside help from someone qualified to give it to him. On his own, he's no more likely to "recover" from his disease than a mad dog is likely to spontaneously heal. That's just not going to happen.

You need to get out of that relationship, and he needs to get help. Period. Either that, or you can stay in your abusive relationship, and keep telling yourself that the man who hits you isn't really a man who hits you.

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