Missing the point completely.
Support comes in many forms.
Like a place to stay when u pack up ur things or come up with an exit plan.
Financial help so they don't have a papertrail of withdraws from the bank account they share with their abusive spouse.
A pep talk when ur building up to leaving n something knocks u back.
All those things can do a lot for sum1 in a vulnerable state. Something y'all seem to conveniently divorce from the situation. To get with a known abuser, the odds of u having pre-existing issues n codependency r damn near 100%. For it to escalate to severe shit, the seeds been planted. That persons been broken down, may have been prior to the relationship starting, n they gotta build themselves back up.
N the legal process of bringing an abuser to task is not an easy one. When it reached court, u cld still have the black eye n the lawyers gonna question u like u did it to urself or ask what u did to cause it. Cuz it's their job. N that's assuming u got hard evidence. If u ain't, ur lucky the police don't brush u tf off.
A lot of ppl don't even get restraining orders because they can't go through that, or they tried n faced discouragement from authorities. Going thru that when u ain't undone the damage the DV has done can reopen the wounds, n often not even amount to a conviction.
Y u gotta be so purposefully obtuse on this?