, where nothing I say is right" and Sidda says "that's how you want to live
your life, painted into the corner by an unfit mother?" Then she goes on to say, "fine, I'm gonna make this really easy for you,
won't you put this whole thing on hold, while you try to figure out how badly I'm going to fuck up everyone's life, okay? Don't
send out those invitations, do not." She threatening him not to send out their wedding invitations because they are supposed to be
getting married soon, so Connor says "your on the verge of making a very big mistake right now," Sidda says "well so are you and
I'm not gonna let you." Sidda uses verbal aggressiveness towards Connor. Here's a guy who is madly in love with her and she keeps
shooting him down, not wanting to get married.
Another concept for conflict strategies is force. Force is "winning an argument by physically overpowering the other person,
either by threat or by actual behavior," (DeVito, 1998, pg. 391). During the movie the ya-ya sisters are shown as little girls,
this is when three of them, Teensey, Vivian and Carol went to Atlanta to visit Teensy's Aunt Lou. While eating breakfast one
morning the girls Chaperone, Willamette, an African American came into the dining room to give Vivian a cup of hot chocolate and
the little boy, Junior said to Willamette "who told you, you can walk your Louisiana ass in my dining room? You got ears nigga,
get on out of here." The girls were very shocked and angry at how he spoke to her, so Vivian stood up and said" you shut your
mouth you prettcey ass mommas boy" and then she threw a plate in his face. The boys mom got up and grabbed Vivian, and Teensey
said "Ant Lou, you better let go of her or I'm gonna let that ugly half what you call Junior, have it again," and then she threw
another plate at his face. Both, Vivian and Teensey showed force by throwing plates at Junior because he disrespected their
Verbal Aggressiveness and f...