Since love is such an abstract concept in which everyone has a different perspective, it is difficult to say whether people who are being abused really think that this is the way they are supposed to be treated. It is extremely hard to know anything about love when someone hasn't experienced it before. This is why it is so important for us to express loving gestures to one another. If everyone expressed kindness and love to each other it would help us heal the personal scares we have and help us get that love we need. It might even help someone see that what they are putting themselves through isn't love if they are being abused.

No its not a love thing at all.... but if that is all you know then, to that person; maybe it is. I have been a victim of abuse and I do know for myself that it certainly wasn't love for me but, it was more of a love that I had for him. I believed that I could help him change if I was just a little more patient with him. I had gotten to the point where I lost who I was trying to "fix" him. Not realizing that I was abusing myself as well as getting abused by him. After a long while I grew tired of being abused by him and I started to love me again. That was the best decision I had ever made!