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“Many barriers prevent women from leaving a psychologically abusive intimate partner, which can be understood through the stages of change (SOC) model.”
From ‘Reconnecting With All the Things That You Lost Because of Control’: What Helps Women in the Process of Leaving a Psychologically Abusive Intimate Partner? (2026) · cites this paper as Saunders, 2021
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“Even when abuse is recognised, leaving an abusive intimate partner is constrained by numerous barriers, including access to material resources, psychosocial readiness, safety concerns and social structures (Saunders, 2021).”
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