I learned a terrible statistic about domestic violence. Anyone can be abused, it doesn’t matter who you are, any class, any gender.

The only defining commonality between abuse victims is their character trait of having: hope.

Since they were effortlessly hopeful, they were the ones to stay in an abusive situation. All other non hopeful people acted, aggressively acted to change their situation.

Abuse victims are paralyzed by hope, that things will work out despite no evidence for it working out. They somehow “believed”