GW, I've worked with hundreds of domestic violence victims - spouses and their batterers - and your reasons sound like what battered women would say of their abusers.
It's an addictive cycle of violence that continues because of feeling powerless and of feeling unworthy of self-love on behalf of the battered spouse.
It's an addictive cycle of violence that continues because of feeling powerless and of feeling unworthy of self-love on behalf of the battered spouse.