Recently, domestic abuse has once again been brought to the forefront of our national consciousness with the alleged abuse encountered by Rihanna at the hands of Chris Brown, both international R&B superstars. A small subset of our citizenry, depending upon your background, find abuse to be a justifiable everyday occurrence. Whether it’s physical, emotional, and/or mental, abuse is still abuse at its very fundamental form. You could make the debate whether the abusee should return to their abuser or not. I think many people use their own personal experiences to try to influence the abused to not return to that environment. Sometimes, it is harder to convince the abusee that the situation and behavior is fundamentally unacceptable because with time the individual, typically, begins to rationalize the behavior. Yet, I believe the better approach would be to attack the very voices in their minds. What have you heard from the abused? Shares your personal (my friends told me 
) stories of how you have heard people rationalize the deviant behavior.
