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she feels that she deserves the abuse because of something she said or did wrong.
“Women come to Turning Points and say,‘My husband is a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. He’s domineering and abusive at home but wonderful, kind and thoughtful outside. Everybody loves my husband and nobody will believe he hits me.’ The wife covers up for him. She feels stupid for allowing this (battering) to happen to her.”
When others do discover what’s going on, Deane said, they see the solution as simple. Their advice: leave him. “Why does she stay?” they wonder. “She must like it!”
“And in most cases, the bottom line is that she loves him. She doesn’t know why except sometimes he’s nice and he does fulfill her need for being married,” Deane continued, adding that it’s difficult for women to leave the
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