Dating a woman who has been abused
Dating > Dating a woman who has been abused
Is her partner in or out of her life? A woman's spouse may be physically in the home but psychologically unavailable. He's not caring for the kids or being a loving partner. It's a confusing time. Yet, when they come home for visits, they may pay little attention to you while they make the rounds of their friends. It's always hard to figure out what the new boundaries are as you move into a new stage of life. Khaw has applied the model to 25 abused women from varied backgrounds, identifying boundary ambiguity within the five stages of the process of leaving. The last stage, maintenance, is achieved when women have been gone for six months or more. In the past, Khaw and Hardesty have used the model to focus on what individual women are going through. But applying boundary ambiguity to the model gives a abusee complete picture of the process. Other actors are involved. The abuser makes decisions that affect a woman's movement through the stages. It's important for social work professionals and frustrated family and friends to understand the process of leaving, Hardesty said. They don't help women disentangle themselves emotionally. But it's hard for women to get out of the situation if they haven't resolved these relationship issues. It's aubsed for them to reinforce the womn the woman is facing by asking such questions as 'Has he become more abusive? Does he have a gun? When women do finally achieve both physical and emotional separation, research shows that they experience fewer health problems and less depression, Hardesty said.
Last updated
