Physical Violence Domestic Violence Revealed through the Conflicts

because Keith as the divorced partner is interrupting Elizabeth on looking for other men, he disallows Elizabeth to see other men by intimidating each man whom she has relationship with so that the man will go away. The act of Keith blocking her attempt to have a relationship has changed Elizabeth‟s mind or psyche that she cannot have a new life by having a relationship. The conflict is categorized into psychological abuse based on the effect of the interruption on Elizabeth‟s attempt on looking for a new partner by Keith has happened for a long time and that makes her mind cannot move from the past. The victim is blocked from other single men which makes the victim cannot have a new relationship with the man and always puts into the past as a divorced young mother while Elizabeth as a woman needs to have a new man as her lover and starts her new life. The point of this psychological abuse is that Elizabeth wants to have a new partner which has been the nature of each person to have a partner to share the life but the desire is then forced to be unfulfilled within the block done by Keith as the abuser or perpetrator. The isolation makes the victim feels lonely and in sorrow psychologically. Another psychological abuse shown in the conflicts is when Keith storms into Elizabeth‟s house and acts like it is his own house. At that time Keith is furious, when he gets into her house he balls his hands into fists and his eyes stares at her Sparks, 2008:363. The situation shows psychological abuse because Keith in his manner of storming Elizabeth‟s house and his gesture of anger has intimidated her that Keith will harm Elizabeth by balling his hands into fists and stares at her. The conflict categorized into psychological abuse because the way Keith comes into Elizabeth‟s house and the gesture when he meets her has created an intimidation. When Elizabeth as the victim is intimidated, it means that she psychologically is under the control of Keith so that he can do anything to her easily. Keith is so angry when he knows that Elizabeth and Logan are still together, he storms to her house and shows the real him that he would like to have Elizabeth as his own. He threatens Elizabeth that he will use his power as the deputy and also the family member of the judge in Hampton to make a case that Logan is a stalker who stalks Elizabeth which will make Logan becomes a suspect, and that case also will force Ben to leave her because if Keith had manipulated the case, it means that the relationship between Elizabeth and Logan is dangerous Sparks, 2008:367. The threat from Keith is categorized as psychological abuse because he threatens Elizabeth to use his power as a deputy and also the family member of the judge in Hampton to make a case of Logan as a dangerous man who has stalked Elizabeth and has relationship with her, which means that the relationship has put Ben into danger, and that case will make Keith has full custody of Ben and he will take him away from her. The threat is considered as pscyhological abuse done by Keith to Elizabeth because in the threat Keith is trying to take a part the people whom Elizabeth loved, Ben and Logan, and moreover she knew that if Keith does like what he has said by taking Ben from her and forces Ben to live with him, it will harm Ben‟s growth because Ben can not live with his father‟s manner on treating him. In addit ion, although Keith‟s threat is not to harm physically to the people Elizabeth