I think guilt is what stops most people from leaving. It took me quite a while to get over the emotion of feeling guilty. Most women just tolerate really horrible men because they feel like if you believe yourself and explicitly trust your observations, you'll stop being nice. We as women who date men feel guilty about even daring to have a particular standard or having any kind of taste. So it's like going back to my initial point of what you learnt to tolerate as a child will definitely set the tone for what you believe you're deserving of. You have to quite literally go out of your way to make the effort to break that cycle of thinking - but just because it feels unnatural doesn't mean