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She kept going home because abuse and a human's reaction to it are frequently illogical, and because she loved her family. Love is powerful, and easily manipulated by power. Especially growing up with her nuclear family being her only close social interactions, and being conditioned from birth not to trust 'outsiders', it makes perfect sense that she would keep going home. She was taught that without her family, she was nothing.

It's also very common for individuals to compartmentalize, repress negative emotions in public, code-switch in different settings, and manufacture different personality traits for different interactions. you probably see this daily. Most people behave differently at home in front of parents, than when in public with friends, than when alone in public, than when at work in front of their boss. Tara writes about doing the same.

Agree with Rachel. Plenty of abused and manipulated souls find it difficult to sever ties with those that abuse them, especially when it's gone on for so many years, at such a young age, and by those that they rely on to take care of them.

it's very hard to understand why when you are not raised that way....there are so many complexities. remember you are looking at this from the lens of a world view she didn't have at the time.