My third concept will be relational turning points: transformative events that alter the relationship in a fundamental way (page 336). This concept ties to the scene at the end of the movie where Michael officially decides to go to college at Ole Miss. When the investigator talks to Michael about the Tuohy’s and Ole Miss, and when Michael escalates and runs away, Leigh Anne stays faithful that he would return and realizes that she and Sean had been pressuring him to go to Ole Miss. The couple talked it through that night that Michael was gone and she left the next day to go search for him. Michael gets into a bad situation with some people he used to hang out with and then he ran away again. Leigh Anne then gets a call from Michael asking if
