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Leaving & Rebuilding

Why do women stay in relationships longer than they want to?

On Women Rising America, women describe staying for reasons that rarely make it into a headline: the children, the finances, the fear of what leaving would cost everyone else. They talk about waiting for a reason big enough to justify going, and about the ripple effect a decision like that has on a whole family. What they learned is that the reason was already big enough.

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