Not to mention exhaustion; when you’re in a relationship with someone who is abusing you, sometimes just surviving the next ten seconds is the most amazing, demanding and bravest act of resistance you can imagine This makes the complicated and massively demanding work of safety and exit planning, resisting family pressure, the guilt of removing your children from their home/schools/networks etc all the more difficult

🧵 The question ‘why do women stay with abusive partners?’ could be vastly improved with interjection of the word ‘some’. *Some* women stay. But/and in fact most leave, just not as quickly as they or we would sometimes want. Let’s help people understand why: #DomesticAbuse Contrary to what can seem like the obvious way to achieve safety, leaving is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do: 41% of women killed by a partner or ex-partner in 2018 had left or tried to do so; 30% were killed within a month, and 70% within 12 @FemicideCensus