clipped from: health.blogs.foxnews.com Like many battered women, Rihanna doesn’t seem to see the danger in dancing with a violent man who has proven he can’t control his destructive impulses. That’s because her vision is clouded by passion or naivete or whatever dark chapter of her own life she may be replaying now by “playing with fire.”
What Rihanna is teaching her lover is that her self-esteem is so low, or her need to fix a man so great, that she is willing to risk everything to be by his side. For a man like him, it unconsciously gives him license to strike out at her again. And it actually deprives him of learning that his disorder can cost him things he cares about (if he actually does care about Rihanna at all).
Rihanna’s decision is a terrible example for young women in America and around the world—as bad as anything we ever saw from Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan.
As a forensic psychiatrist, I’ve testified in murder cases that started out just like this one. Let’s hope it doesn’t end as badly.