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"Yo le hacía todo ... , me enamoré perdidamente ... [ ... ] Yo confiaba ciegamente en él y me preocupaba por sus cosas, porque estuviera bien [ ... ] Él nunca me pegó, pero lo peor que me pudo haber hecho fue mandarme a coordinar el robo cuando él se quedaba dirigiendo desde la casa ... Lo hice por él, para que él estuviera bien" (S-8, Woman registered on line 8 of the database)

Caring for the other turned out to be an explanatory factor of female crime (Aristizábal and Cubells 2017). According to Gilligan (1982), the role of women is framed in the ethics of caring for other people—a responsibility that is socially conferred and for which she is demanded. In other words, it is a woman's desire to meet their partners' needs (through crime) while neglecting their own needs; it is the socially imposed commitment to prioritize the requirements of others over one's own. Based on this responsibility that is founded in a patriarchal society, women face the crossroads of looking after the well-being of the other, although many times they have to go against social, moral and legal norms.

### *3.2. Although He Doesn't Love Me*

A ffective dependency is characterized by emotional distress (insecure attachment) and dependency to another person with a low self-esteem and reassurance need (Scantamburlo et al. 2013). This is clearly observed in the stories of several women interviewed, who a ffirm the need to be with someone even though he does not show them that he loves them. Many allowed the mistreatment as a way of "not enlarging the problem", at the cost of the companionship benefit. This category is closely related to co-dependency factor 1 on denial mechanisms.

"One already gets used to the other person and well ... finally one resigns oneself to the things that happen as they have to happen ... In the end we did not touch each other, nor speak, nor look at each other ... At first I cried a lot, but afterwards I said that it was not worth crying, so I resigned myself [ ... ] We continue to live together because I did not want to be alone, and the truth is that I did not see myself alone, I was never alone, ever since I was little there was someone, although if only to make a bulk" (S-10, Woman registered on line 10 of the database)
