Why do women stay or gravitate to abusive people?

This seems like the life she has been accustomed to. People usually are more comfortable in situations they are familiar with, Maybe these are the only friends she has and if thats true she may have a difficult time letting them go, for all the reasons I've mentioned. Hope this helps.

I guess she just doesn't want to cause any issues or make a scene even though she hates the situation.

Maybe she was just a plain flirt starving for attention...or maybe she was masochistic, she had this kind of mental illness that finds satisfaction from being mistreated or hurt physically.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.