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I Hate Guys Who Hit Women

I think we've all known at least one person who's been in a relationship like that who we wish we could help. At the end of the day, there isn't much we can do but that doesn't stop us from wishing we could.
I would say my feelings about this are complicated, but they’re not really. I think men who need to hit women in order to feel manly are scum.

But I don’t understand women who won’t leave, either. I understand being afraid of retaliation, and I understand the situation where a woman might be in a financial bind. But I’ve known accomplished women, one in particular who had her own money, was both a skilled markswoman and trained in martial arts and she still wouldn’t leave a guy she could probably have flattened who belittled and made fun of her.

In the late 80s and early 90s I volunteered at a women’s shelter. I will probably never do it again. A woman got one of the counselors killed by sneaking a call to her estranged husband and telling him the counselor was keeping her from going back to him. This after she had told us all the the horrible things he’d done to her and their small children, who were also in hiding.

I almost got myself hurt making my couch available to somebody who was also not sure she wanted to leave the abusive boyfriend who put her in the hospital and threatened to kick my door in. I called the police on him, which made her angry at me...she rewarded him for the black eyes and broken nose by marrying him and giving him a house full of children.
I don’t understand why some women seem to be wired so strangely.
Quizzical · 46-50, M
I can't believe the number of women who actually STAY with abusive partners... Or have a long list of abusive partners because they always go for the same 'type'. 🙄
Quizzical · 46-50, M
@TRell We have a family friend who just seems to be an asshole magnet. Time and time again she find these abusive men... In her case I think a lot of it has to do with her insecurity and lack of self worth though. She doesn't actually think she can do any better even though she is a lovely and attractive women. ☹
kalpanapatel149 · 36-40, F
@TRell you can call 911 instead of watching it from a distance.
TRell · 22-25, M
@Quizzical I'm still in high school but I've had several friends I wish I could help. Where I live, not a lot of good would happen from calling the cops. Plus think about how every time something like this happens, the girl lies about it out of fear
It is not always girl that hit the guys sometimes it is the girls who do the hitting

 
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