When a woman is convinced that she can stop the violence in her marriage, her stubborn determination feeds her sense of failure each time she sees that she can’t regulate her husband’s demands and abuses. In a perverse type of review, she may then ask herself how she could have been so stupid as to overlook the early warnings. This further diminishes her self-esteem.
Susan Weitzman, Not To People Like Us: Hidden Abuse In Upscale Marriages
abuse, domestic-abuse, marriage, physical-abuse