In the movie Waitress (2007), Jenna Hunterson has just discovered that she is pregnant by her abusive husband, Earl. However, over the course of the film, Jenna begins to have an affair with Dr. Jim Pomatter, who is the knight in shining armor to help Jenna escape her abusive husband and try to "save the day". In the film, director Adrienne Shelly demonstrates to the audience how the Wheel of Power and Control is used, through examples such as emotional abuse, male privilege and intimidation. On the other hand, the movie made mistakes regarding what a domestic violence relationship would be like by adding an unhealthy relationship with a married doctor, how Jenna didn't officially end the relationship with her husband. In Queen's “Being Emotionally Abuse: A” Phenomenological Study of Adult Women's Experience of an Intimate Relationship with an Emotionally Abusive Partner,” focused on a total of 15 women, who experienced emotional abuse from an intimate partner relationship and they wanted women to describe: “What is it like to live the life of a woman who is emotionally abused by her intimate partner?” When experiencing emotional abuse, this can be expressed as “not easily detectable; they are physical markers. (Bornstein 2007, Campbell and Humphreys, 1984; Evans 1996; Gelles and Strauss, 19888; Kurst-Swanger and Petcosk, 2003, O'Leary 1999; Walker, 2000). against women sometimes because during the cycle of the relationship, the woman cannot tell when something good or bad will happen. As this happens, she begins to lose the strength she had before and finds herself trapped in her own mind with physical damage , people outside the relationship may notice bumps and bruises on the skin. Alma, a young mother of three preteen girls, describes her personal experience with emotional abuse as: “I was very limited. He wouldn't let me contact my mother... my family, my friends. After I had my daughter, I wasn't allowed to go to the doctor. I could only go and get my daughter...I didn't know anything about our bank account...I didn't have any money of my own." When you think about emotional abuse, know that you can't see the "bumps and bruises" but you can still see the effect it has on your partner by using their mind as a weapon rather than focusing on the individual. According to Queen and others, after their research, they would have defined
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