lots of misogynistic guys use certain verses in the bible as an excuse for married guys treating their wives like crap
in the totally homophobic circles, the women get it into their heads that the one with the penis should be the one in charge in the relationship, and they enter the relationship with a "slave mentality" thinking that her boyfriend/husband should be her "master"
this relationship was already "psychologically abusive" before he actually started being "physically abusive"
i don't know how they do stuff in Canada, but in the USA if a woman walks into the ER to get med treatment for an injury and if she tells the ER staff that the injury was an assault, and if she tells the ER staff who assaulted her and where to find this person, then the hospital will hold you "for observation" untill after the cops arrest the person who beat you, then an Adult Protective Services person will interview you (still in the hospital) and try to get you to agree to a "restraining order" so that the person that beat you won't be able to do it again, if the woman in the ER has kid(s) the restraining order would prevent the person who beat her from interacting with the kid(s), regardless of whether or not he was the father of the kid(s) and/or husband of the woman he beat up
also
if you're on the phone with a woman that has little kids and she hangs up on you "out of sheer terror" that, all by itself, means that you need to get your ass over there and beat the shit out of someone, regardless of who the fuck it is that's scaring-the-hell out of her