Reasons Why Women Find It Hard To Recieve Toxic Relationships–The Lawyer
Reasons Why Women Find It Hard To Recieve Toxic Relationships–The Lawyer
Why is it difficult for women to leave when a relationship becomes violent? A legal practitioner, Helen Nma Dickson, who has handled many such cases stated that those who finally leave are heroes and survivors because there are many challenges to battle before picking up the courage to leave.
An abusive relationship Is a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another partner in an intimate relationship. These behaviors can be physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, or financial in nature.
Dickson, a managing partner at the Regent Legal Consult in Abuja, stated that experience has shown that while it is generally difficult for both genders to leave such relationships, it is always extremely difficult for the woman.
The lawyer, who heads a legal team for the Abuja Moms, an all female Facebook group, noted that there are several factors that contribute to the inability of a woman to easily leave a toxic relationship, even when it is life threatening.
One of the factors, the lawyer stated, is that women in such situations develop low self-esteem about themselves.
She stated that constant abuse can strip a woman of her dignity and turn her into someone who lacks confidence about who she is and what she can do.
Dickson stated that there is extreme gender imbalance/disparity in the distribution of wealth in the society adding that the woman is more adversely affected by poverty, and hence it takes a carefully orchestrated effort for the woman to break barriers in wealth creation.
Dickson also listed as a reason women find it difficult to leave abusive marriage is their children. She described as ironic how some women who decide to stay for their children ended up leaving them due to death.
“A poor woman from a poor family hardly “get mouth” 90 percent of the time in marriage, and when abused, she cannot fight back, nor can she walk away, because it is tough out there in the jungle,” she noted.
Dickson who stated that the lists of ‘impediments’ are inexhaustible, however stated that the good news is that whatever the case and situation, any woman going through abuse can walk out and can be rescued.
“A woman needs to be financially empowered to make decisions about herself, and contributes to decision making in her marriage and home.
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