okay guys, put this in perspective here. let's say your some dork and you start dating this chick. at first she's amazing and you fall in love, then she starts getting a little bitchy, a little crazy, maybe one day you piss her off and she slaps you. doesn't necessarily mean you stop loving her, it means she's not that nice. it's the same way with women. we fall in love, and sometimes partners take advantage of that. like it was said before, abuse builds. maybe it starts off as a public put down followed by an apology, a year later it's a little slap during at argument followed by hot make up sex. if the situation escalates, the emotions and the feeling of love tend to go with it, making it all the more difficult to leave the relationship.
you can look at a woman who's being beaten regularly and say she's an idiot, but just remember that you have no way of knowing exactly what she's been though to get to the point she's at. maybe now she's confused, or she's scared, or she's lonely, or she's delusional, but she's the only person who can decide. so why speculate.