Unbeknownst to Matt, Bobbie has been working with Nikki's ex to find a safe place for Matt and his sisters to live, and a way to keep Nikki away from them. Matt is running out of adults to turn to when his mother's sister-his aunt Bobbie-finally steps into the picture.
When not trying to exact revenge Nikki becomes even more volatile at home, causing Matt and his sisters to once more fear for their life.
In the movie Unbroken Louie stays calm and uses patience to help him survive. The first way was to stay calm and to use your anger. There is several ways that Louie uses some of these techniques to survive. There are three rules you should keep in mind while teaching discipline to children: Rule 1: Limit the rules. I dont want to give away the plot, or spoil any part of this. Laurence Gonzales The 12 Rules of Survival is connected to Unbroken in many different ways. Nikki, enraged over the breakup, starts becoming aggressive she starts breaking the man's car windows, and sending hit men over to his house. What makes this book is so devastatingly compelling is that the abuser is the childrens mother. Frantic, and more out of time than ever, Matt searches the city for the man, and is again spared the effort by Nikki, who has taken to stalking her former boyfriend. Murdoch gets a restraining order on Nikki, but she continues to harass him. She teams up with Ben and Murdoch to start figuring out a way to ensure that Nikki loses custody of the kids, since they are all worried about their safety. Matt's heroic fantasies come screeching to a halt when the man breaks up with Nikki. Aunt Bobbie, who is Nikki's sister, begins to take an interest in the kids and tries to protect them. Now that the stranger is "part of the family" Matt hopes that he will see how crazy Nikki is and want to save Matt and his sisters like he saved the kid in the grocery store. Matt makes it his sole mission to find that stranger, but is spared the search when Nikki brings the man home, as her new boyfriend. As the book opens, Matt is starting to lose hope that he and his sisters will ever escape Nikki, but then he witnesses a total stranger save a random child from a beating in a grocery store. Matthew is only a young teenager, but he is responsible for keeping himself and his siblings alive while they're living under the roof of their mentally unstable and abusive mother, Nikki. A teenage boy struggles to keep himself and his sisters alive under the care of their abusive mother.