Abusive Relationships

In all honesty, I don't know why women (generally speaking. This can apply to men too) deal with this shit.

This topic hits pretty close to home, as there's someone in my house who's currently in a particularly shitty and abusive relationship. They know damn well what they need to do to fix this problem--break up with said spouse, cut off communication, move on with life--but for whatever inane, batshit reason... Even though the fucker has cheated on them multiple times, has evidently hit them (I've seen the bruises!), humiliated and discouraged said family member... Ugh. They still fucking "love" their shitty shit significant other.

And even though people outside looking in on the situation know that it's not love, that it's issues with self-esteem and all of this other shit, it's a hopeless and helpless cause to try and work with these people because they refuse to listen to reason. It's both a sad and frustrating effort, to try and pull these people out of their rut and get them going toward something better.

However, the descision to change must be made completely by themselves. They're pretty much the only ones who can do anything in (abusive) situations like these.

How ya doing, buddy?