[QueenCopper]

Does childhood abuse lay the foundation for other abusive relationships as one gets older? If a person is molested for several years and help is not sought for them, does the victim usually find themselves in more abusive relationships?

[crazykarmatalk]

I'm not positive about this, as I have not researched it enough to know, but it makes total sense to me.

[ThisWayOut]

I lot of times, it happens simply because we miss the subtle signs while we're busy looking out for the big stuff.
There's quite a bit of research on the subject of subsequent abuse Agassiz survivors if childhood abuse, I just can't remember it at the moment.
Sometimes it also goes back to conditioning. Often people abused as children don't d fight back or speak up when abuse happens later in life because we've learned to freeze in response to trauma.

[adam_k]

There are several studies that have been done that make connections with re-victimization.

One conclusion they drew was this:

Several researchers speculate that
mediating factors caused by CSA
contribute to higher risk of sexual
revictimization. Childhood abuse may
interfere with normal development of
interpersonal relatedness and affect
regulation, which in turn decrease
abuse victims’ awareness of danger.
Negative long-term effects of CSA
may be attempts to avoid or cope
with negative emotional states, but
that such emotional avoidance can
create challenges in recognizing
danger cues. Some female CSA
victims may associate sexuality with
pain, punishment, and other negative
outcomes, leading them to believe that
coercion and trauma are “normal”
aspects of sexual relations. This, in
turn, would leave CSA victims with a
“higher threshold of tolerance” for
coercive or forceful sexual advances.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...Ctr80kxVAkLa7Q

[Ankh91]

Originally Posted by QueenCopper

Does childhood abuse lay the foundation for other abusive relationships as one gets older? If a person is molested for several years and help is not sought for them, does the victim usually find themselves in more abusive relationships?

I think it depends on who you are. I was abused from a young age into my teens, but I learnt what I did not want, that tolerance isn't love, and I'm now very aware of my actions and how they could affect other people. However, I know other people who were abused who are the opposite of me and are promiscuous, and or have a string of abusive relationships. So I think it depends on the individual person and their frame of mind, how they cope with the abuse and how the abuse affects them. But I wouldn't say abusive childhoods lay out foundations for abusive relations, I'm living proof that you can be abused and have a healthy, happy, loving, completely abuse free relationship.

[Unrigged64072835]

From my experience it has.

[BrazenApogee]

we repeat what we haven't examined. facing the cycle breaks the cycle.