Need advice for a friend, quick!

[hot_pastrami]

Originally posted by Lady Sidhe
*shrug* She loves her husband, despite what he's done. They have a daughter, and, having grown up without a father, she doesn't want her daughter to grow up in a "broken family." Also, she doesn't like to run from her problems. She's one of those kinds of people who believes in working out problems...marriage is for better or for worse, and right now, she says, they're going through the "worse" part.

What if, instead of being unfaithful, he was beating her? Would she leave him then, or call it the "worse" part and hope that he'd change? And which is more reprehensible, a husband who beats his wife, or a husband who is unfaithful?