Jean and special guest Abby explore a portion of the conversation with Jules that had been excluded from the main episode in order to allow for a broader and more direct response. Jean touches on the ways in which women are tasked with upholding the emotional load for their own children as well within situations of domestic and family violence. She discusses the gendered aspects of the expectations placed on women to maintain a sense of mental stability even in overwhelming circumstances. Jean also shares her own personal experience of experiencing exhaustion as a single mother and witnessing it in the mothers she worked with while working in women’s shelters. Abby speaks to Jules’ experience with the police officer, relating it to her own personal experience with police in the context of her own lived experience of domestic and family violence.


Keywords: Domestic and family violence, gendered violence, gender expectations, mum burnout, patriarchal oppression, policing, emotional labour.

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