I think that despite the advances women have made in the workforce, that a lot of women still operate with the old mentality that sex and love have to go hand in hand -- thanks to brainwashing from a pretty sexist society. We are made to feel guilty if we just want to have sex and then just want the guy to leave. We have to make it into a relationship or at least try to or else we're sluts. Hence we let creeps stay long past their due date. We are not taught to take care of ourselves as young girls. We get praised when we take care of someone else -- hence we grow up to put our own needs last. So some creep's needs trumps our own. Also, we have a limited time to have babies and so, driven by this biological need, we take on a creep as as a potential father to our kids and husband to ourselves when a sperm donor might work better. I think it takes women many years of just experiencing the world and working on ourselves to realize that we matter and that we don't have to settle for anything less than an equal loving relationship. I think that's why women in their forties experience a second lease on life. We get out of that Stockholm Syndrome and stop taking bullsh*t.