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"Battered women: The fact that they are so often financially dependent upon the men who beat them makes for a vicious kind of entrapment. It's emotional dependency, though that puts a double lock on the trap. "There's a kind of panic that many women have about being able to make it in any way other than being dependent on their husbands (...) They've been taught their whole lives that they can't. It's a conditioning process." In situations in which they have no effect on their environments, animals begin to give up. (...) the same thing happens to humans. Stay long enough in a situation in which you feel you have no control, and you will simply stop responding. It's called learned helplessness. (...) Having been "shaped" to believe there is nothing she can do about the situation, the battered wife goes on being battered. Only after she begins to disengage from her belief in her own helplessness can she break out of the vicious cycle of dependency and its brutal effect on her life."- Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence #mujerbrava💪 #stopthejudgment #saynotoviolenceagainstwomen #saynotoabuse #brakethesilence #defendwomen #educatemen #openyoureyes #openyourheart #we #unidas #dilenoalaviolencia #dilenoalfeminicidio #somoshumanos #soydominicana🇩🇴 @bravatravels