I have no doubt that childhood experiences shape a person's paradigm and their perceptions and their decoding. However, we are speaking of unconscious criteria. A balance of male/female. If a girl has an abusive father, when she grows up she still KNOWS that it was wrong. She doesn't assume that it was "normal" just because her dad did it.
"How do you explain abused women, going after guys that abuse them"
"If the unconscious has compelled a woman to an abusive man, she's compelled because he shows a sense of dominance, then ego intercepts the ball and gets attached to being "in love". She doesn't have the conscious strength to see what's best so she remains in the tie. Not because she needs that criteria because her dad hit her mom, but because she has lost control of her ego. "
They don't like to be abused, they are compelled by something else, some other "criteria", then become attached, then abused, then they can't break the attachment because their EGO's are out of wack and have taken control. That's why.
However, I think we will both agree that part of the REASON that they choose to stay in an abusive relationship, and submit to their ego, is because of a fvcked up paradigm, caused by their childhood experiences. But again, that may have been what KEPT them in it, not what DREW them to it.
There are MANY people who's parents DO get along, who date abusive guys. I'm sure there is a link self-esteem wise, somewhere with the ones who DO have abusive parents, but it in no way confuses them into thinking that's normal. They know it's normal, hurtful, harmful, and dangerous.
-Blitz