This article aims to understand experience-building of intimate partner violence around power relations in the life stories of women attending the Secretariat of Women in the city of Villavicencio (Colombia) looking for primary psychological care. The research which gave rise to this paper was developed based on the qualitative method and following a hermeneutical approach to biographical-narrative. The paradigm of complexity along with the systemic-narrative approach, constructivism, and social constructionism were the guides to develop this study, considering they are based on the fact that language is a tool for enabling the construction of participants' experience of violence and life stories. Categories addressed in this work are: intimate partner violence, power relations, and narrative construction. Among our main findings it can be highlighted that power dynamics experienced in different contexts by participating women favored the emergence of intimate partner violence, showing that such dynamics exemplify and reinforce expressions of the patriarchal culture in which male supremacy over women becomes a reality.