How can a woman

claim to love and want to stay with a man who treats her like property, mistreats her physically/ verbally/ mentally/ emotionally, is jealous and distrusts her, ignores and neglects her, and/or cheats on her repeatedly? Shed some light on this for me ladies and help me understand.

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Magnolia · 31-35, F

There can be so many reasons for this. @FlyingHome gave some excellent responses. Another reason is this: as adults we often seek out the love we saw as children. If you grew up with a father who was abusive towards our mother and the mother stayed, that's what love looks like. With our adult reasoning we know it's fucked up but on an emotional level we might seek out that sort of relationship. In fact we often do. That's what I did.