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Originally Posted by jrrsmom
How do you let someone do that to you? How do you not fight back?
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My guess is that it is similar to the batter wife syndrome, which is psychologically complex in that women stay in abusive situations even when they have many opportunities to leave.
In another thread, there was also a discussions where participants of an incest relationship is mutual. Many years ago I worked in the court system, and a man was arrested for having sex with his teenage daughter over several years. The daughter was forced by court order to testify against her father. She was considered a hostile witness for the prosecution because she felt she had the right to have sex with anyone she wanted, including her father. She wasn't upset that her dad had seduced her into becoming sexually active at a young age (10-11), she was upset that her dad had been arrested and was in jail.