Reasons For Abusive Relationships

Have you ever heard of the word "painful love"? Sounds so ironical to be true yet a reality.  That's just the simplest definition of an abusive relationship. What started as a romantic story full of happiness and love suddenly turns into a nightmare.  Even in marriages, there are abuses, an upside-down switch from sweet to better, love to hate, cuddling to punching and so on.

As a way of introduction,  I do not need to define love. Your definition is as good as mine. So let's flow with your own definition of it. 
Relationships are founded on the basis of love and mutual understanding between two opposite Sex. However, oftentimes people find themselves in an abusive kind of relationship. Such relationships are characterized by verbal insults, battering, sexual assault and so on.
It begins with one act of slapping and apologizing then gradually turns into a habitual cycle.
But as strange as it is, people stick to abusive relationships irrespective of the pains. For whatever reason, abusive relationships sometimes do last for months and years.

Generally speaking, abusive relationships are hardly envisaged from the beginning especially for women who are more prone to it. But why do people still stay in an abusive relationships?  Why do they still go on dating the wrong person? (I honestly need answers.)

In my own little mind I think people stick to abusive relationships because they are helpless and do not know how to come out. Some hardly involve a third party into the affair. Although they feel the pain but just bound to their "master"

Also love is a reason. Yes love.  Love can really endure and tolerate things. Things you can't ordinarily overlook,  love makes you do that. In some cases that's the reason. The victim finds it just so hard to quit the relationship because of the love.  After all he always come to plead for forgiveness with gifts and a nice treat.

Furthermore people in abusive relationships are affected psychologically with a low self-esteem. This is an effect of such relationship.  They are stripped of self-worth by the way they are humiliated and frequently abused. 

Abusive relationships always have a bait. The bait could be finances. A woman that is dating a rich guy that she depends on for her daily meal finds it difficult to quit.

By and large, abusive relationships are like emotional prison and there sure will be prison break one day.