I think you misread my post, it's okay... it's early and we all need our coffee
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agree, my entire post was about how emotionally abusive and creepy Arif was towards Ieva. I wrote that he may have not been physically abusive but he was definitely 100% emotionally abusive. Imagine what happened when she wasn't filming... Arif literally found joy in making snarky and rude comments towards Ieva.
Not to mention, Ieva would come all the way to Paris to see him and he would rarely ever take her out somewhere nice to eat. Arif always made Ieva cook for him when she was there to see him on holiday. He was so unpleasant and acted like she owed him something (no woman does).
Ieva's friend, Lena, has a husband and he is half German and half Turkish. He looks like he treats Lena very well and clearly treats her with mutual respect, buys her designer bags, shoes, perfume. Takes her on nice trips and seems to get along well with her family. I think Ieva was so desperately trying to be in love and have someone because she didn't know any better.
Yeah, I can just imagine her mother probably made comments like that a lot. Not saying her parents are bad people but when you grow up with a level of dysfunction, sometimes people develop a "fawn trauma response".