| Victim Profile
Typical traits, attitudes and behavior
patterns.
- Intense need for love and
affection.
- Low self esteem.
- Believe that they don't deserve better
treatment.)
- Childhood physical, emotional or sexual
abuse.
- Enforced isolation creating resentment.
- Strong need for a relationship to
validate them.
- Gain a sense of worth by care-taking the
abuser.
- Inability to set and enforce
interpersonal boundaries.
- Difficulty expressing anger, tendency to
internalize it, act it out in other ways.
- Loyalty to the abuser takes precedence
over emotional or physical safety.
- Belief that "it will change if I
just try harder."
- Repeated attempts to leave the
relationship.
- Inability to follow through with leaving
- return to the abuser again and again.
- Clinical depression, self-medication.
- Suicidal ideation or attempts.
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