It is just as bad when hit with verbal abuse and lies and being told it is your fault.

Yet, society tends to accept men who cheat and lie and the women they are married to tend to "self blame" which only teaches other women to do the same.

Camelot was no "Camelot" for Jackie. Hilary blamed herself, "I was not emotionally available enough". There are more of these kind of scenarios and yet these individuals are often "adored" by society, so it's ok right?

Society can send messages to women to make excuses or put up with things that "hurt" them. It is important to send a message that no matter "who" is doing wrong or causing "hurt" and being deceptive in some way, it will be "frowned" upon by society instead of, "oh, its ok he did a good job" so it can be overlooked.

Early on when my daughter was little I had a family meeting with both my husband and her even though she was only about three at the time. I made is our family rule that "NO" hitting is allowed, we would not be a family that hit at all because it is wrong.

If my husband had hit me I would have left him, "period".