I hate how accurate this probably is.
Having tried (and failed) to get a good friend away from a violent abuser husband, it's frustrating how astonishingly fucking STUPID women are about willingly staying in openly-dangerous situations, especially in the presence of threats of violence.
One night after telling a group of us (we were all a big circle of friends back in the day) how her husband beat her regularly, forbade her answering the phone or making phone calls in his absence or leaving the house for any reason except with his explicit permission (given daily), four of us loaded up in my big pickup, car seat in hand (she had a 1-year-old son with this prick), and showed up at her doorstep one morning we knew he'd be at work. Told her "we're here to get you and your son out of here, pack what you need and we'll get it loaded up. First stop is the hospital to deal with that shiner and those cuts on your head. And if he shows up to try to stop us we'll beat him until he stops moving -- you'll be safe, don't worry. We've arranged safe housing for you and the little one where this asshole can't find you."
She cried, gave us all hugs, told us how much she loved us for being such good friends, then told us to go home -- "I'll be okay, don't worry, he's a good man, he takes good care of us, etc." Blew our fucking minds. We all sorta gave up on her after that. Last any of us knew, he still beat her regularly and she'd pumped out a couple more kids for him, no interest in leaving or anything.