Abusive Relationships

 

Discovered by my daughter, a song written from the point of view of a man trapped in an abusive relationship.

Why would anyone tolerate this? Or even, as in the song, at least half desire it?

It comes, as in Johnny Depp's case, from being raised by an abusive parent. 

We are pre-programmed to love parents, and to assume they love us. If the parent is abusive, we are most often doomed to spend the rest of our life accepting being abused is an expression of love.

As a result, we are drawn as if to a magnet, or like a moth to a flame, to some new abuser.

Hint: anyone who abuses you does not love you.

It is a hard cycle to break out of.