As I stated in a previous chapter, I never got staying with someone that abused you. I personally never experienced it and the one time my stepfather raised his hand to my mother, she put her hand up and told him he better kill her, because he would have to sleep at some point, and she would kill him. He put his hand down and she got us together and walked out.
Never understood the need to physically, emotionally, or verbally degrade or hurt anyone either; what makes someone do that? I know all the pat answers, but just don't understand why truly.