| Many women say they where glad when their | | | | a telephone hotline service. |
| partners hit them, because in that moment the light | | | | Call a friend. Also, less likely to be done compared to |
| went "on" and they knew exactly what they were | | | | women. The shame factor associated with being |
| dealing with: domestic abuse, intimate partner | | | | battered is huge, and when it's a woman battering |
| violence. | | | | you, it carries a stigma entrenched with more than |
| But for abused men, the physical abuse doesn't | | | | partner victimization. |
| always turn the light "on." More often it sends them | | | | What Abused Men Do, When Battered by Their |
| spinning into further confusion over their ranting, | | | | Female Partners |
| raving violent partner. | | | | So, what do they do? They go to the Internet and |
| What Abused Men Don't Do, When Battered by | | | | privately Google "verbal and physical abuse" or some |
| Their Female Partners | | | | related term in a quest to understand what's up with |
| So, what do they do? It's not likely that they would | | | | their out-of-control, overly controlling partner. |
| call the police. For goodness sake, in most instances | | | | From here these battered men may learn that 37% |
| these men are bigger and stronger than their | | | | of domestic abuse victims each year are men. If you |
| battering partners. | | | | are a man in a relationship with a woman who is |
| Pick up the phone and call a domestic violence hotline. | | | | emotionally, verbally or physically abusive toward you, |
| Also not likely, partly because if they do exist, they | | | | seek to understand the dynamics of abusive |
| are not mainstream. And secondly, men are socialized | | | | relationships. |
| to deal with personal conflict with means other than | | | | |