Why Women Stay In Abusive Relationships Part 1 with Dr Erica Bowen

All around the world, domestic violence rates have skyrocketed where ever there were lockdowns.

For many of those women, they’ve lived with physical and verbal abuse for years. The question is:

Why do they stay?
Why don’t they just leave?
And what can we do for people who are in abusive relationships
How do we support them?

A friend of mine has been completely open and honest about how her relationship with her ex. Her ex was verbally, occasionally physically abusive, and discussing the impact that it had on her with her online followers. So, imagine my surprise when she announced she was going to re-marry her ex.

I needed to get my head around this because to me, in no world was this okay. Why, after all the things she’s told us about what happened in their marriage, would she even consider getting back into a relationship with him? And she’s not the only one who does this, so how does this work?

Dr Erica Bowen has spent over 20 years studying abusive relationships and working with victims of domestic violence. Here, she shares some of her wisdom about why people stay in abusive relationships.

Why it’s so difficult to escape them and why society needs to change from the ground up if we’re to stop this from happening.

NOTE: This is Part 1 of the interview with Dr Bowen. Next week, we will release Part 2.

Why it’s so difficult to escape them and why society needs to change from the ground up if we’re to stop this from happening.

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