She was married for many years to an abusive man.
It can also motivate women to stay with abusive men.
That might be the case, for instance, if a woman is living with an abusive man.
He would pull hair to warn a woman of danger from an abusive man.
She was failing her high-school classes and running with an abusive 36-year-old man.
His mother married an abusive man, he said, who beat both boys.
Ask any girl what it's like to be in a club on a Saturday night and you'll hear plenty about abusive men who aren't priests.
"There's no way I'd get involved with an abusive man again."
By seventeen, she was married to an abusive man, apparently one of some social standing.
Many women stay with abusive men, reluctant to leave someone they love, or once loved.