What I don’t understand are the men who are abused and don’t leave. If she is willing to hit you, she is willing to do anything. I think it is becoming more commonplace as women see violence as an end to a means.
Most of the abuse cases I see are older people with dementia. They aren’t good at hiding it.
The days of the poor defenseless woman are over. They are brawlers now.
I was a victim of domestic abuse by a woman from beginning of 2009 through mid 2010. She was an alcoholic who liked to hit every now and again (about three months apart usually). She was small so she never really injured me, but there was a pride injury, and an injury to our relationship. Finally, in April 2010, I called the law.
In my case she used a combination of threats and appologies. She told me that she would call my C.O. and tell him all sorts of things, all lies and all cruel. When I did leave her she called my Senior Chief and told him I was cheating on her, thankfully I was on duty at one of the times she accused me of. She did enough damage to my reputation, my credit score and my savings. and this was all within a year. And she got the last laugh, while applying for an annulment in order to get married again, she lied to the priest who was doing the investigation resulting in the ending of my engagement. You cant prove you didnt do some things years after the fact. Really, I should have listened to my grandma who told me that “Welsh women the only thing worse than Irish women”