Why do women tolerate abuse from their men? 73 Articles

by Do Cantin-Meaney

The Victims of Abuse in Canada Violence and abuse in today's society has always existed. Over the last few decades, several Canadian researches have shown that abuse and violence in intimate relationships has some conne...read more

by Pamela Delano

Excuses. "He was just angry" "That's just how he is sometimes," "Well, I was annoying him-" "I should've done what he had asked for" "He just cares about me so much," Etc.. These are some of the many excuses...read more

by Bailey Landon

Women and Abusive Relationships: Escaping the Cycle of Abuse It happens everyday. A woman is abused...physically, emotionally, verbally, mentally. Physical abuse happens all too often to entirely too many women. But ...read more

by Tracie Anne

I wouldn't use the word 'tolerate' when describing women who are abused by men. It is not a case of 'tolerating' the abuse, it is a feeling that you 'deserve' it. You fear being alone, you fear you won't cope. Invariably h...read more

by Vivian Edwards

When you are in an abusive relationship your thinking begins to change as the abuse escalates over time. For me the abuse started out slowly, just an occasional issue. One for which he was very sorry each time. Over the...read more

by Art Vandelay

Domestic violence is an issue that has directly affected as many as one-third of all households in the U.S. It is an issue that has only recently been brought into the public sphere - until the 1970s, spousal abuse was vi...read more

by Carolina Dream Coy

To tolerate something means you have a choice. This is true, we each have a choice to stay or to leave, however, generally if a woman is staying in an abusive relationship she does not realize she has that choice. To tho...read more

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by Jennifer Lee Snelling

Women who are victims of sexual, emotional, mental, verbal, spiritual, or any type of abuse known from their men usually hang in that relationship or marriage, thinking that things will get better. What's worse, some vict...read more

by Paula Bobbitt

Domestic abuse and/or sexual abuse will effect 1/3 of women within their lifetime. Why do these women stay with their abusers? There are many dynamics involved in the reasons why a woman may stay with an abuser and even de...read more

by Marisa Wright

Women tolerate abuse from their men mainly because of low self-esteem. They may not have low self-esteem when they first get together with their man: however, many abusive men are expert manipulators, and know how to gai...read more

by Victoria Balderas

Why do women tolerate abuse from their men? When that man comes along in your life who simply "sweeps you off your feet" you can become so caught up in the excitement, the romance and the passion that you do not look beyo...read more

by Kiran Mckenzie

Many women tolerate abuse from their men, both physically and mentally. Even now as I am writing this article, women are being abused. The statistics is frightening and alarming. Did you know that " around the world one in...read more

by Jennifer Walker

Simply put we tolerate this mistreatment because we ourselves are missing something in our own persona,something we have missed on our way growing up, needing this attention good or bad is our own sickness, a weakness that...read more

by Kelley Quinn

How many times have we heard about or knew an abused woman and say to ourselves and sometimes even to them, "You're an idiot for staying with him." I was that idiot years ago and I can tell you why I stayed and how I got ...read more

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by Beth Burns

I don't know that "tolerate" is the best word to use in this situation. It certainly isn't a word that came to mind when I was in similar relationships. First to understand is that any man who abuses, be it physical, e...read more

by Margie Tyrrell

I want to share a few stories with you, but to forewarn you, they are not happy tales. There are several women I know, that have had horrendous endings, with terrible crimes. My Mother was in a physically abusive rel...read more

by Valentine Logar

First, let me say that I am a survivor of an extremely abusive first marriage. The abuse in that marriage covered the gamut including emotional, psychological, physical, and financial. That relationship nearly killed me ...read more

by Scarlett Lynn

Women tolerate abuse from their men for a variety of reasons. I will list the four reasons that impacted my reasons for tolerating abuse from my man. One very big reason is "Low Self- esteem." A woman who does not re...read more

by Ophelia de Serres

Often, we hear of men who molest young girls and women and receive too little jail time or often, no penalty at all for their crimes. Tonight, on television was a story of a mother who was the co-abuser to her daughter of ...read more

by Wendy Hedges

I sit and think of that young woman way back then. I can't even remember her name much less what she looked like, oh but I do remember how she felt about herself. Not pretty enough, smart enough, clever enough, just not go...read more