No, I do no accept anymore: identity and life courses of women who broke definitively the violent intimate relationship

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Objective: To characterize the life experiences and beliefs of women victims of dating violence who broke definitively with the abusivere lationship. It is also intended to know how it starts and runs the rupture process along with the factors that lead to permanent physical separation. More specifically: to characterize the experiences of dating violence; to understand the process of transition from violence to a physical separation; to analyze the rupture process; identify the social, psychological, emotional and personality led these women to a permanent rupture. Method: This study involves four women who no cohabitate with abusive boyfriend and six women who cohabitate with theabusive partner and broke definitively with the abusive relationship (forat least eighteen months). To collect the data we used semi-structured interview (Fávero, Tulha & Ferreira, 2010). Results: The contentanalysis having met the following categories: physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, dating violence, gender and dating violence, experience of victimization; break; self-evaluation compared to women who do not break; chance of living similar situations. Conclusion: The results demonstrated the crucial role played by social and family context in relation to the decision to break permanently the abusive relationship. The experiences and beliefs on violence are consistent with those described in the literature. We found that, although the break does not occur following an assault, its process doesnot appear isolated, but together with a prior consideration on its consequences