Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Culture Empathy Encourages Experience Hope Love Making Many Men Misguided Nurture Our Past Predictable Seductive Ugly Well Women

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