Netflix’s ‘Maid’ Helped Me Open Up About Domestic Violence
“What we’ve known for decades is that anyone, absolutely anyone, can experience abuse by a partner,” explains Dr. Tami Sullivan, an associate professor of psychiatry and director of Family Violence Research and Programs at Yale University. “It cuts across every race, ethnicity, age, income, and education level, which is why it's critically important for us to be teaching all people about what abuse is when they’re younger—that it is not only physical abuse.
Land conveyed the harm of emotional abuse in her memoir, and the message is in turn reflected in the show. “In my own life, I didn't realize the extent of the abuse I experienced for many, many years,” Land tells. “I started writing about it quite a bit after I graduated college. [I] joined writing groups of women who had been emotionally abused, and learned enough to help me finally process what I'd been through...
In her early twenties, Brittany was in a four-year relationship with a boyfriend who was verbally and emotionally abusive. The two met in the Illinois town where they both attended college, and Brittany’s boyfriend later followed her to Chicago after she moved there for a job in the music industry.
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