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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Nursing Research and Practice Volume 2012, Article ID 738905, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/738905 Research Article Rethinking Social Support and Conflict: Lessons from a Study of Women Who Have Separated from Abusive Partners Sepali Guruge,1 Marilyn Ford-Gilboe,2 Joan Samuels-Dennis,3 Colleen Varcoe,4 Piotr Wilk,5 and Judith Wuest6 1 School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada M5B 2K3 2 Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 3C1 3 School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada M3I 1P3 4 School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2B5 5 Department of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Children’s Health Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 3C1 6 Faculty of Nursing, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3 Correspondence should be addressed to Sepali Guruge, sguruge@ryerson.ca and Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, mfordg@uwo.ca Received 25 February 2012; Revised 14 June 2012; Accepted 5 July 2012 Academic Editor: Patricia M. Davidson Copyright © 2012 Sepali Guruge et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Relationships have both positive and negative dimensions, yet most research in the area of intimate partner violence (IPV) has focused on social support, and not on social conflict. Based on the data from 309 English-speaking Canadian women who experienced IPV in the past 3 years and we