Instinct and Substitution

This paper presents a scientific hypothesis challenging the psychological view that women remain in abusive relationships due to learned behavioral patterns or childhood trauma. The author argues that women possess a primary biological instinct to select a single partner for life. When societal substitutions alter the partner's behavior, leading to abuse, the woman struggles to leave not out of habit, but because her primary instinct compels her to restore and guide her chosen partner back to his original state.