Ms. Roberts talks briefly about the character she plays, an abused wife.

I have also been an abused wife and a battered ex-wife.

The old brain has an overriding need for security, which is why so many abused wives defend their husbands and return to them.

"I see no difference between an abused wife and Karen Hill," she says.

I was an abused wife for 10 years, until I finally got the courage to leave my husband last spring.

This wouldn't be any simple complaint of an abused wife.

The abused wife fakes her own death and starts over in a new town.

A rich husband, an abused wife, and no prenuptial agreement.

It's almost like the story of an abused wife.

The kind of fear that an abused wife usually harbored.