A woman who is a victim of severe emotional violence tells the nurse that her husband abuses her ...

A woman who is a victim of severe emotional violence tells the nurse that her husband abuses her
  most often when he is intoxicated, just as his father had beaten him and his mother.
 
  She states he is
  always apologetic and remorseful after an incident. She has considered leaving home with her two
  children but has not been able to bring herself to actually leave. The stage in the cycle of violence
  that prevents her from leaving her husband is the
  a. tension-building stage.
  b. acute battering stage.
  c. honeymoon stage.
  d. recovery stage.