When will enough be enough?
Abuse- to a person/animal with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly.
Abusive relationships are virulent. The effects of abusive relationships are brutal, and can affect a person’s life tremendously. Women and men all around the world are suffering from these types of relationships. Abusive relationships are not only physical but can also be emotional, and mentally harming.
“I personally feel like abusive relationships can’t be prevented. Something may have struck inside that person beforehand to give them the abuse-like behavior that they have, but I don’t think there is anything the significant other could’ve done to prevent those kind of violent patterns,” said Zaria Hayes.
Some feel like the person doing the abusing is because of their upbringing.
“I also don’t understand why women choose not to report the abuse. Are they afraid that person might hurt them? I feel like if they do report it they shouldn’t have any fear because he is going to be arrested. Or at least they could get put into witness protection,” said Shiontae Kizer.
According to Huffington Post, nearly 60 percent of all young women have experienced abuse, 29 percent of women surveyed said they'd been in an abusive relationship.
A lot of people say it takes a while for a woman to eventually leave the abusive relationship.
“Sometimes a woman could blame it on herself and feels like the person will eventually change but it turns out in the end he’ll never change. Love can do that to you sometimes, blind you from actually seeing the toxic effects of your relationship,” said Porcha Dixon.
“Some women are released from an abusive relationship because they may have been pushed to the point where they had to call the authorities or felt like their life was in danger, and it’s sad,”
Abusive relationships can have long term effects on a person, it can give them different outlooks on future relationships and cause a lot of self-esteem issues.
“Abusive relationships could be for men and women, too. But there are more reports with women in these types of situations,” said Shiontae Kizer.
They can also be emotional and mentally abusing.
“The partner could be saying very hurtful things to ruin the significant others self esteem making them seem like they’re the problem. They’ll do everything in their power to please that person so they can be happy with their appearance,” said Zaria Hayes
What if there are kids involved?
“If there are kids involved, that’s a different story. The person could be abusing the kids also, and that could really scar those kids for life,” said Porcha Dixon.
“I’ve witnessed an abusive relationship before, the woman stayed with the man because she loved him. Her escape was he got locked up for illegal things. But best believe, if he didn’t get caught in the wrong act she may have stayed with him. He beat her to the point where she lost her babies and all, very tragic story. On top of that she had a daughter and she had to witness this behavior of someone that isn’t her biological father. How do you think this little girl is going to view her future relationships? Do you think she’s going to expect this? These types of situationships need to come to an end,” Porcha Dixon said.
There are a bunch of examples of abusive relationships. Like in “Madea’s family reunion,” or “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” At the end of the day, they all ended the same. The woman finally realized that enough is enough, and ended up leaving the toxic relationship. All women need to take this into consideration, when will women realize that enough is enough?
