there are many instances where people do not have the power to fight back. Some are readily available to take advantage of this fact and cause pain and suffering. Sometimes it is evident in very obvious ways and results in the punishment or ridicule of the perpetrator. In the case of emotional abuse this is not always the case. Though a person may be tormented, external signs such as marks and wounds will not be exhibited. Some may ponder why do they put up with it? Why don't they just leave? To which the simple answer is a dependency is formed where the victim, so used to the verbal and phycological indignation occurring on a daily basis, becomes entwinend in circle where the occasional nice word from the perpetrator becomes the focus of existence through the barrage of assaults.