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was wrong are able to come out and get help.”
But the dependency still keeps others from seeking help. “Hope springs eternal," O’Meara quotes the old adage to refer to the typical attitude among battered women that their husbands will change and the beatings will stop.
Battering Cycle
The grounds for this help is a psychological pattern known as the battering cycle.
Abusive husbands typically feel ashamed and apologetic after a violent incident. They become loving and attentive. But then the tension begins to build until an apparently trivial incident creates an uncontrolable rage and the wife is surprised by another attack.
As the relationship continues, violence escalates. The tension building stage moves more rapidly to the battering stage. The only way out of this cycle is through intervention. One of the parties must get help or
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