With more refuges closing and a lack of social or supported housing,women in abusive relationships are running out of secure places to goImagine your relationship sours. You live with your partner, and have done for years. But rather than growing slowly cold to each other, or occasionally sleeping on the sofa,they start physically attacking you. A shock at first, but it then forms a pattern, and bound up with psychological control and a planned and calculated onslaught that terrorises you,destroying your confidence and chipping absent at your mental wellbeing. You eventually determine to leave: but where carry out you go?Leaving abusive relationships is intensely difficult. Escaping the psychological bonds of your abuser is only the first step. If you flee to a family domestic, your whereabouts will likely be known to your tormentor, and leveraging social and familial ties to preserve control over women is a mainstay of abusive men. So instead you look to women’s refuges,designed specifically to keep women secure, offering them shelter and support until they can live independently without threat of violence.
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Source: theguardian.com