- The movie starts off great. Julia Roberts digging for clams, looking like she is having a great afternoon on Cape Cod.
- The beach house is super organized.
- Why is this movie rated R
- Her husband kicks her in the head.
- There’s no reason to ever kick anyone in the head.
- I know why this movie is rated R.
- Faking her own death was wild. Cool that she had learned how to swim.
- Julia Roberts flees on a greyhound from Boston to Ceader Rapids. I’m glad nothing bad happened to her on the bus at least.
- $700 a month to rent a whole house.
- At first I thought her new neighbour was going to be creepy too, but he ends up being a good guy.
- Why did her husband chase her down when he had a responsible job in Boston. She’s dead as far as he knows. They had the funeral. Why not go find someone else to bother? Better yet, why not work on being a decent human being.
- I don’t think Julia Roberts wanted to kill her husband in the end, but he was trying to kill her for sure. Not a lot of good options there.
- What do men even get out of abusing their wives? This is not a good situation ever.
Men’s Motivations for IPV
Early research examining men’s motives for IPV demonstrated that state anger was the most commonly endorsed reason for physical aggression perpetration (e.g., Makepeace, 1986). Subsequent research has shown that perpetrators often endorsed multiple motivations for IPV (Harned, 2001; Hettrich & O’Leary, 2007; Straus, 2008), and that there is significant variation among perpetrators regarding their motives for IPV perpetration (Bell & Naugle, 2008; Stuart et al., 2006). For example, Bonem and colleagues (2008) examined the self-reported antecedents and consequences of IPV in a sample of male batterers. Results indicated that the most common motive for IPV was partner behavior (e.g., partner annoyed the assailant; partner yelled at the assailant; partner criticized the assailant). Furthermore, Hamberger and colleagues (1994) interviewed men arrested for domestic violence prior to their participation in court ordered BIPs and found that the most common reasons provided by men for perpetrating IPV were power/control (e.g., assertion of dominance, control of physical and verbal behaviors and emotional responses, punishment for unwanted behaviors), pent up anger, and desire for control. In addition in a qualitative study of 36 martially violent couples, Cascardi, Vivian, and Meyer (1991) found that men were more likely to report that they perpetrated severe IPV to control their partners.
Why can’t people just treat people better?