Why would Hayden Panettiere stay with an abusive boyfriend?

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She stayed with this abusive loser who even went to jail for abusing her, and she's with him still, wtf? You're hott, rich, and famous... literally could have almost anyone she wanted.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

This is just my theory. I am trying to speak bad of her. I am just giving my theory on what I think happened.

She's rich and used to living a pampered life style where the majority of the men in her life give her princess treatment.

When she meets a guy who treats her like she is a disposable garbage bag it peaks curiosity in that guy. She thinks "this guy most be special or have something i don't have if he is unwilling treat me like I am the best thing in the world" so it sparks interest for her.

When a woman deals with nothing, but disrespect all her life and shitty guys she'll desire the gentlemen type of guys. Like women from 3rd world countries who deal with guys who take drugs or drinking alcohol, doing nothing and expect the woman to serve.

So they meet an American guy who is used to going out of his way to treat a woman respectfully and they prefer that over the drunkards im their countries.

scarcity causes desire for these things.

Its not just a woman thing. If you look at the unabomber he went from a Harvard mathematics professor to sitting in the jungle looking like a hobo. Even though he was very intelligence and had what it took to become a very successful person he still desired what was scarce to him.

Its the scarcity.

OlderAndWiser · Accepted Answer

Why does any woman stay with an abusive partner?

When you look at an attractive woman, you see her face, the shape of her body, her hair, the way she is dressed, and all the other external signs that make her physically attractive. What you don't see is that women who are physically attractive have just as many psychological hang-ups or disabilities as anyone else. Those psychological problems may make then self-destructive and may make them unappealing as a partner for a LTR. Celebrities may lead extraordinary and exciting lifestyles which are constantly reported to us but they are simply people who began as ordinary human beings who won the lottery in some fashion.

NoDecision · Accepted Answer

The same reason countless other women do. They have low self-esteem and don't think anyone else would want them. These are the same women that their boyfriends kill because these so-called "Boyfriends?" are just pieces of trash and vomit.

Love Doctor Brad · Accepted Answer

My aim on GAG is to decode messy relationship dynamics… even the celebrity ones.

Looks, money, and fame don’t protect anyone from trauma bonding, low self-worth, lovebombing, or fear. Abuse traps people psychologically. There’s shame, denial, guilt, and hope that “they’ll change.”

You can be hot and rich and still feel broken inside. That’s why abuse is a massive red flag, no matter who you are.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

There’s reason to believe that she was raised by a narcissist. So she didn’t know any better. Even when she knew something was “wrong”, it was the same kind of wrong that she’d experienced most of her life.
Abusive relationships are strange that way. People who grew up in abusive homes are actually uncomfortable in healthy, respectful relationships. There is often shame and denial that factor into not reporting IPV, and going back to an abusive partner as well.
It’s actually a very complex issue. You could read about it for days and still have questions.

AviatorTom · Answer

According to the experts...

A person may stay with an abusive partner because they may view the partner's actions as their own fault, not their partner's. They may also be insecure and think this is the best they can get. Or, they may kid themselves into believing it's not abuse, it's just normal actions.

We don't know Hayden's specific situation.

May she rest in peace.

Finchie40 · Answer

She just passed away on the 16th I heard

Just_Ken · Answer

Same reason she imploded her family, left a good man and lost custody of her child.

Jackblue · Answer

When you get right down to it abusive relationships are like cults. People feel as if they could make things work if they just acted a little differently, thus they imagine their abuse comes not because the abuser is a bad person, but because of their own moral failures. I am convinced that children who got beaten a lot love their parents more than children who weren't. When people are abused having to work hard to earn small amounts of tenderness and affection increases their devotion.

RachyRach · Answer

Ask the millions of other people who do the same why they do it. Stockholm syndrome maybe?

browsingthroughthe · Answer

A mystery I guess.  It's like broadly speaking why some couples even become couples if they're just - you know - not a match. Or they don't even click 😞

gasman70 · Answer

like anyone they believe its their fault and that the person they knew before is still in their and that only if they do something right, that old person will come back.

BCRanger10 · Answer

Does being hot, rich, and famous say anything though about what's in someone's heart or what they truly want out of life?

FunkyMonkee · Answer

She's NOT with him, anymore!! Why does ANY girl chase after abusers? I doubt I'll ever understand that!! Why is it EVEYBODY ELSE can see him as an abuser but, she can't?

Staximus · Answer

She was probably lonely, probably scared away the guys that had a level head because she was a mentally ill person self medicating with alcohol and pills

jshm2 · Answer

Good dick? Money? It's not our choice,. But she sure as shit wasn't gong to pick you regardless.

exitseven · Answer

I has an uncle who was a cop that used to say the the sadists always find the masochists.

Anonymous · Answer

Not to minimize her trauma, but didn’t she just die?

Anonymous · Answer

Why does ANY woman do something that makes no logical sense like this? All you can do is chuckle and shake you head man.

canamlusciouslad73 · Answer

Don't know, but unfortunately she can't tell us.

GothEgg · Answer

She had a self destructive streak in her no doubt. I met her ex husband years ago when I was little, he was lovely.

Still-alive · Answer

we know what you're trying to do you women hating bot you.

jahaims · Answer

Crazy at your age you don't understand stand an abuse cycle.

Kassandra1994 · Answer

Perhaps he made a love spell on her.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Trauma bonding and manipulation.

Eiram5 · Answer

Perhaps Stockholm syndrome.

Anonymous · Answer

Google trauma bond. That’s why.

Chayce · Answer

Good ol' Stockholm Syndrome

Paige2006 · Answer

Evidentially she had drug issues

Stormzy001 · Answer

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