However, if a woman understands her partner’s abuse only as a “natural” part of female-male relationships, perhaps because of her own experiences of child abuse or parental fighting, she may not have the “sense” to run away physically or psychically. Instead, she may stay to fight a battle her size and strength may not equip her to win. As an enactionist, I argue that, to counteract this woman’s ineffective conception of and response to her situation, she and her support system must construct language sufficient to articulate the body’s knowledge (distress with her environment of violence and abuse) and bring this knowledge into conscious awareness. With that conscious awareness, the mind can use language to revise how to respond to that knowledge. Then, by revising her judgment of domestic abuse from “natural” to “intolerable,” a woman (or man) can begin to move from being the victim to being the survivor of abuse and violence. However, the cognitive shift an individual woman makes in creating a cohesive, therapeutic narrative for the self is insufficient to support the difficult behavioral choices she must make to end the abuse. In addition, and as enactionist theory proposes, a woman leaving abuse must establish continued and multiple sources of cultural support.