Let me preface this by saying I'm not - N-O-T - condoning violence, and yes; some of the people featured in this series are quite violent (some more than others. Some do more emotional abuse, which isn't a good thing - I do know that from personal experience), and conversely, some of the people who watch their stories, I - a viewer - had much more sympathy and empathy.
This one - with a woman named Robyn and her 'evil' partner is one I have very little empathy for. She's so irritating - and in a very immature, childish way (this woman's no babe in arms; she's definitely a 'mature' woman) it was very difficult to watch - not because of the violence heaped on her, but her behaviours.
I can (personally) be involved in sometimes dangerous things, and more than once I've felt the person (or.peraons) I'm with are going to end up causing me to be in a more dangerous situation, simply because of their behaviour. I tell people an analogy; let's say I'm a deer, and I've learnt how to live safely. You're a deer which comes along and asks me to help get them appraised of how to act/live safely. There's hunters out there, and my goal is to live. If you've asked me to assist you, and yet you're so disregarding of common sense, sooner rather than later, you'll get killed. I'm not going to put myself in a position where I must knock you out of harm's way, because you're to stupid to act sensibly.
Well, this episode is one where Robyn's the dumb (as doorknobs) deer. If she had come to me for help, I'd have figured her out pretty fast to realise 'she says she had common sense, but her actions speak otherwise'.
Yes; I do know that being in a bad relationship can be difficult for the abused party to get out of - due to real or imagined issues.
Robyn is just so. ..
Let me say this; their's episodes of the series where the fear and trauma the people suffer from is palpable. As it progresses, there's naturally going to be more people who watch it, think to themselves, 'i was in a horrific relationship', and because any show 'lives' on getting people to share stories, the number of...duds (?) will climb.
Robyn's a dud. I wish her no bad will, I just couldn't care less about her.