If you have been in an abusive relationship, and you KNOW that it's abusive...

It's all you know, you're afraid to be alone, easier than admitting you might be happier with someone else...there's a long list...

Not always easy as that.

You may have a financial or familial connection, you might be afraid of alternatives. You may not know the choices. There may be embarrassing repercussions.

Everyone makes their personal choices for a variety of complex variables.

It is easy to be a tuesday afternoon quarterback. Life is complicated.

Maybe they don’t think they deserve better idk

Chris Titus put it pretty well in one of his standups. We all have an inner retard...that little voice that says stupid things like “wait, before this toxic person is completely out of our life, take one last look...what if that is the best we’ll ever do?” And people with super low self esteem actually listen to that voice and go back.

Maybe they believe it’s what they deserve