Domestic Violence is a form of abuse in which women are hurt either physically, sexually, or verbally in their own home. Usually, the aggressor is a man who feels he has power over women such as a husband. The aggressor though, never hurts the woman just once and a cycle in which the woman is being abused develops.
It starts with the incident in which the woman is abused; either hit, raped, or verbally brought down. Then, there is the making up stage in which the aggressor apologizes for what he has done and makes false promises such as that he’ll never do it again. Then comes the calm stage in which both the victim and the aggressor are happy, calm, and keeping their promises to each other. After, there’s the tension building in which the victim feels as if anything she does might upset the abuser and he can hurt her again. The abuser starts to become angry, he brakes his promises and then the cycle starts all over again and it never ends.
Some people wonder why domestically abused women stay in the harmful relationships?
Many women decide to stay with their partner because they have been taught since a young age to be dependent on their partner economically or emotionally. Some of the women do not work because they take home to take care of their families and therefore are tied to their artier because they have no way of taking care of themselves and their children financially. Another reason why women stay in an abusive relationship is because they want to keep their family stable. It is harder for the women who have children to separate from their husbands because they do not want their children to suffer. Some children turn on their mothers and might blame her for destroying the family, therefore some women rather suffer in a relationship than tear her family apart.
Some of the signs od somestic abuse are very clear and people involved in a woman's life (who is domestically abused) may see a difference in their attitudes now to how they would act before. Some signs though, such as the thoughts and feelings going through a woman's mind are never obvious and that is a reason to why Domestic Abuse can never go away; because women are afraid to speak their minds due to their abusive partners.
In summary, milions of women around the world suffer from domestic abuse. Most never escape their realities because they are economically or emotionally dependent on their husbands, and others care more about their family than themselves. Domestic Abuse is a serious crime in the United States, but very few aggressors are punished throughout the years because women are afraid to speak about what is going on in their lives.
