Why do great women get together, and then stay with horrible men?  There is an intelligent, reasonably successful woman of my aquaintance, who earns her own money and uses it to support a non-working bully of a man, who is neurotic, delusional and downright rude. 

“I don’t know why she puts up with him.  He’s so horrid to her.” “Yeah, he always talks down to her.” “What’s he got on her?”